Someone told me
to talk with some shame.
I didn\'t know that language.
So I went to my teacher
and asked what it was.
He said, it was something
I wouldn\'t understand;
he advised that I learn
better English.
I went to the preacher
and asked if he could teach.
He said \"shame\" was when
we asked from God,
yet in the donation boxes
wouldn\'t deposit.
I asked the political leaders.
They said it was the feeling
they would get
when the public could see through
their stories.
I asked the police.
They told me it was the thing they felt
when someone would make
YouTube videos of them
collecting the protection fees.
I asked the poet.
She said it was the deplorable,
devastating emotion
that she felt
when her book failed to sell well.
I asked the poor man
camping on the street.
He said it was how he felt:
when his children went hungry.