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As an Indian kid
Del wasn’t allowed to work
study was enforced
earn a good job or starve.
As a kid in Hong Kong
Jenkins was prevented from work
from tasting money too young.
Del and Jenkins were mildly alarmed
I’d been a paperboy with a dog
a childhood of vagabonds.
At six years old Danny sold Italian bread
on a congested road in the Philippines.
When his family settled in Ohio
he said he lacked school appetite
I realized self-sufficiency.