Two young men in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province have made a name for themselves for selling their drug of choice.

"Just like pharmaceuticals,  poems can also save ourselves and others," Shao Xian told the New Express reported on Sunday.

Shao recently quit his job at a pharmaceutical company to peddle poems on college campuses in the South China city.

Shao has been pushing the works of his partner, university senior Luo Chikun, since December.

Luo explained he first started cooking up poems as a way to deal with college life, but found that "writing poems had become a horrible addiction, which stuck to me like plaster," he said.

The duo first began making midnight rounds to post Luo's poems on bus stops around universities.

They then decided to begin selling the works for 10 yuan ($1.6) each, an appropriate price for "food for the soul," read the report.

Luo also offers custom poetry about any subject.

In 1999, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization declared March 21 as "World Poem Day."

New Express