Back in the USSA

The arrival of the weekend
amidst this quality of life
begs the question:

how upside down is it
when the corporate grocery job
is by far the best thing I have going?

I had some nice dances the other day
but then the beautiful women scatter
to the winds

leaving my singlehood status
at two years two months
and counting

The Earth has been calling me
for decades to do something
but i have never understood her words

and now with my country
firmly in the clutches of the fascists
i wonder if there is anything left to do

Where is my vision!

I have reached out for support
but have not heard back from the men's group
and my one friend in town doesn't return my calls

Maybe I'll head to the farm for some medicine
and likely weirdness.

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Home life has gotten slightly insane
with the housemate's sociopathic friend
hanging around all the time

whether the housemate's around or not:
hacking up trees, dissing people
and generally taking up space

I was going to have the needed chat this morning
but the toilet overflowed and sewage backed up into the tub
so that became the first order of the day

since handed off to the housemate
and more-or-less property manager

My new pants now need to be cleaned
so i am wearing shorts in the chilly weather
in order to get to the cafe here

where i can use the facilities
wonder if the laundry will become available

and consider getting over to DMV so i can wait in line
to pay the government to re-register my car

and get a new ID-chipped driver's license
since my old one expires this week

With money running low i'm not sure I can afford it
until i get paid on thursday
whereupon I can also pay for mandatory car insurance

as well as back taxes owed to the IRS
for cashing out my retirement a couple years back
so i could eat

You think there might be an exemption for that.

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The social contract here runs very thin now

I wouldn't mind paying a legit government
a fee for this or that service

but the debt-based money system
has engendered such massive criminality
at the very top

that paying anything to the very purveyors
of war throughout the Earth

and massive incarceration of nonviolent offenders
here at home

feels for this nazi descendant
particularly shameful

One day americans will argue "we didn't know"
yet the world will simply turn away

in disgust.