Work and Food

a poem by Ismail M

First I learn to cry
I learned and earned
No last cry

I start schooling
To learn subjects
I learned and earned education

I stopped schooling
Earned a job and learn to work
Work gives me money
Now money gives me food
But in the beginning
I got food by crying
More cries, got more food
Then why schooling?
Why work?
Stupid!