Elucidating Questions

Be grateful for the scraps

Be grateful that I have to rely heavily on my mother, as an adult, who isn’t even in that much better a position than I am

Be grateful my medication is $85

Be grateful that the government wants me to live in a room in the most filthy place in the city

You know what I’m grateful for?

That I don’t live in a badly taken care of room

I’m grateful that my landlord hasn’t raised the rent the entire time I have lived here

I am not grateful that I am the dirt under the government’s fingernails

I am not grateful that the vast majority of people view me as a leech on society

I am not grateful for this country founded on the bodies of slaves and indigenous peoples

I am not grateful that the government doesn’t take care of its weakest

What, you think this is as good as it gets?

Universe what the fuck

When I said yesterday that it was quiet I wasn’t asking for whatever this is

I don’t know, you figure it out, you’re the Universe

This incredible country

Where people go hungry

And without shelter

Where the billionaires play their little games

Can I have my boi back please?

That’s better

I cannot view a place that treats those with the least like they are any less than anyone else

As anything even resembling incredible.

And that fact that my aunt would come to the defense of the country that wants me dead makes me sick

It’s rude Sol

Kicking someone when they’re down and hitting out at the demons

Oh no don’t hurt the poor country’s feelings!

Fuck that, how many people are sitting on the side of the road right now?

How many people are hungry right now?

How many people have less than $5 in their bank accounts?

Shelter should be a right

Food should be a right

And incredible country would have everyone fed and housed that wanted to be.

And would love and care for those that didn’t

Medical needs met

If a human can make a trillion dollars then why can’t a country?

Why does money even have to exist?

Why can’t we nurture the brightest and come up with something new?

How many others have merely fallen through the cracks?

How sad