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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8UvCVPXKaQ

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                Bills, side-hustles,

                Budgets and

                Bargains and

                Brake-pads.

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                The more you make

                The more you’re taxed -

Each degree an

                Overqualification

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                       for a job you do not

                                            have.

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I think it’s easy to forget,

Mercilessly easy, really -

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Christ, life

And its necessities

Sure seem to pull you

Into a state of misremembering - 

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That amidst all these gas stations

And grocers

And insurance offices,

Courthouses, copshops,

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Temporary correctional-housing…

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That it’s the same sun that rises over them

As the one that eventually sets, and that

At least twice a day, beauty

Can supersede -

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It can suddenly abet -

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All of this chasing,

And running and hiding,

All this penitence and

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           regret.

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