Power Cut

“I like to be fat”, the poor Cambodian said, “for fat means power. But at this hour I am poor and lacking things. Not able to pull any strings, nor to make myself a living. Skinny means no one is giving, nothing to expect, easy to reject.”

The poor woman dreamed of a fancy house, sharing it with a big fat spouse, and using a lot of electric power. But at this unhappy hour, she is living in a cheap small flat, together with her skinny cat, and if she tries at night to switch on even the tiniest light, there will be anything but because of the daily power cut.

The peasant child was not a fool. It wanted to go to school to become an English teacher instead of a powerless creature. But its parents being poor, sold it to become a whore. Now being a sodomized slave, it soon will seriously misbehave. Because its anger is growing fast, this ticking bomb will burst at last.

This nation does want to succeed, but is undermined by cruelty and greed. The one hand gives it some power, but the other cracks the flower before it can blossom and multiply. That’s the reason why this nation stays poor and depending on never ending money sending. The powerful still control, and poverty takes its toll.