the man

Contrary
To what you might have heard,
It is not
The Clothes that make the Man,
Rather,
It is the Man that makes the clothes.
More accurately,
It is the Boy
Named Javier,
Or Deng Xao,
Who makes twelve cents
An hour,
And
Who shares
a rusty lean-to,
with five siblings,
A decrepit,
Partially-blind,
Old Woman,
And an emaciated dog
Named Lucky,
That makes the Clothes,

That make the Man.



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