Growing Up On A Vegetable Dump

Growing Up On A Vegetable Dump, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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unlike your
pampered kids
she has no
time for barbie dolls
she works from
'morning to noon
collecting left over
vegetables a living doll
raggedy small
stunted but not too tall
a wild orchid
growing among
lichen on the wall
in the shadow
of a deathly pall