Magical?

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There is something magical about being poor. What, you mean drinking polluted water and not having medical care? No, not that, I didn't mean that, something else. Something that can't be pulled off like a decal and applied to the rich (as anxiety can). Hey, one thing is, the poor know they're poor, the others don't know -- but still are. Still that isn't quite it.

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It isn't just knowing but knowing what it means.

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There is the shiver of existence, the fact of having it -- so many people don't anymore or never have or will. They don't *exist*, forget about happy and sad. So why does X have it, when Y has had it taken away? It's not like an injection or an application, it's more like you yourself. X exists. He cannot say he deserves it, he can't say that. You can deserve a salary or title maybe. But existence never. To deserve you would first have to *exist* and what justifies *that*??

So back to the nakedness of existence, and this is something the poor still understand and the wealthy would seem to have forgotten. Because it seems that if you barely have it, you have more of it than someone who thinks he has so much that he can take it for granted and ends up -- well, essentially not even existing.

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