Monologue

Beggar Monologue from Altruism

From Altruism by Karl Ettlinger

male · dark · 27 sec

I've tried working too. But work for our kind is the surest way to remain poor. And, do you know, begging is no pleasure either. To get the money centime by centime and no rest from the police—well, well, if I'm born into this world again I will become a government official.

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