# The Good Life

By [Ericcc](https://paragraph.com/@maomaomao) · 2023-06-30

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    When some people talk about money
    They speak as if it were a mysterious lover
    Who went out to buy milk and never
    Came back, and it makes me nostalgic
    For the years I lived on coffee and bread,
    Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday
    Like a woman journeying for water
    From a village without a well, then living
    One or two nights like everyone else
    On roast chicken and red wine.
    

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*Originally published on [Ericcc](https://paragraph.com/@maomaomao/the-good-life)*