"Po'" is obviously how we
Detroiters say "poor", but only in
special circumstances.
For instance, you're po' when there's no
grates on the
fans in your house. You're po' when there's more
doors in your house with
punch-holes (and
no doorknobs) than not. You're po' when you have to take the
lightbulb from the
bathroom down into the
basement with you so you can
do laundry. And if you've ever washed your
underwear in the
sink because you can't scrape up
six bucks for detergent, you're po'.
If you
look around more than once a day and think, "My GOD, we're
ghetto!" then you're po'.
If your
car runs better on
fumes by now, or if you
broke your lawnmower trying to
compensate for your
lack of a weedwacker, you're probably po'.
And lastly, when you
deliberately buy
cigarettes INSTEAD of
food, because they're
cheaper and will
kill your
urges to eat, you're
fucking PO'.
I, in case you can't
tell, am fucking po'.