Poverty Notes

“The rent is too damn high!”
Memetic phrase of a few years ago
Is still true for most from coast-to-coast
This is the first ugly scribble of these poverty notes

Grocery bill is lengthy too
Affording the utitlites is almost an exercise in futility
But of course these things are necessary 
To provide the barest scraps of stability 

Can’t afford to get sick
Can’t afford to die
Tax man comes around for their piece of fiscal pie
And everyone’s too tired of being sick and tired to question why

The notes of the downtrodden poor is as follows:
First take a dream deferred, higher hopes promptly dashed and hollowed
Next prepare the crumbs and tell them that’s all they have to swallow
Poison lies and actual genocide come after that 
Washed down and washed away in the tides of generational goodbyes

Damn these hopes and damn these notes