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ill to be poor

I get ill through the same means I create happiness.

 

Darkness fills my eyes.

 

And then I die.

 

The man with a gun to his face, disgraced, by no itchy trigger finger.

 

Guts often prevail and the gun clicks.

 

The poor man must create extravagant means to kill oneself.