Dreams of Lulu's dog

"I am not a whore, Zain, but poverty is a whore.
Poverty is a killer. It takes away our senses one after the other, paralyzes us from grasping the available alternatives, and consumes our energy in fear, so we do not know how to think to manage our affairs. Then it blinds us to these alternatives. Poverty has an elaborate plan to bring us down to the bottom, and strip us of our morals, our dreams, and our dignity. Poverty. He is the devil.
The poor in all the world have the same nationality. Poverty is the most widespread state. The majority drink it. It does not need intense propaganda at every moment like soft drinks to enter our stomachs. It invades us without an ID card or a passport. The poor all belong to the same fate, to the same stubborn dreams, to being broken. The same sad people, they laugh at the same jokes about the miserliness of the rich, and they cry at the same misfortunes..."