“Shitty weather, bad timing Lucky penny glued to the ground Dirty look from total stranger Hope you get lost and you’re not found Take a look at what we’ve become Nothing more than silhouettes of A pretty family on a postcard Picture perfect, I don’t want it So I hold…Continue Reading
Month: July 2018
Birthday Post 5 (Or, Finally, An Actual Update)
So much to do, so little time. So much to emotionally process, as the hours of depression bore infinitely empty holes in the walls as the hours trickle by. So our lives inch by, sometimes with days feeling like weeks where you need seven naps. That’s the feeling I had…Continue Reading
Isolation and the Denial of Interdependence
This is part 3 in a series on economic injustice. Click here to read from the beginning. “His philosophy was: to be up, you gotta push someone down. That was all I knew cause that was all I was around I found the flaws in his methods from the cause…Continue Reading
Burned Out at 30: The Rise of the New Underclass
This is part 2 of a series on economic injustice. Click here to read the introduction. “Stop punchin’ the clock Punch it with all of your rage Put the men in office For a minimum wage Rats, fighting for scraps Siphon the gas from your tank Left your pockets empty…Continue Reading
An Introduction to My Research on the United States Economic Crisis
“Halt, freeze, who goes there? Do you have the right? Do you have the right documentation?” –Enter Shikari The letter said that if I didn’t attend the meeting, I would be denied access to food benefits. My partner received one, too. When we arrived, after nursing our dying car to…Continue Reading
Breaking the Taboo
We’ve alienated each other from the conversation about fiscal policy, corporate policy, and shamed ourselves into silence. Either you’re a temporarily embarrassed rich person in the job and car and house and clothes of a poor person, or you’re too rich to ever disclose what you make, and feel guilty…Continue Reading