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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

A faded signboard
hung on our sagging fence
reads:

WE DIE FADED JEANS

but on the gate
instead hangs
an exhibit –
a threadbare napkin
soiled and holed
a flag of indigenous
entrepreneurship
waving our poverty
to passer-bys
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Entrepreneurship

A faded signboard
hung on our sagging fence
reads:

WE DIE FADED JEANS

but on the gate
instead hangs
an exhibit –
a threadbare napkin
soiled and holed
a flag of indigenous
entrepreneurship
waving our poverty
to passer-bys

Entrepreneurship

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