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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_3Kt-sF_DY

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Hah. Not quite ...

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It's hard to diagnose your own predicament 

When you're still in the process 

Of living through it, but

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Three Cheers for Discourse 

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There's a cosmic irony 

In spending the extent of your twenties

Desperately building the skillsets, the credentials,

The necessary experience 

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So that when you hit thirty 

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You get to finally learn

That mortgage brokers, insurance companies, 

Banks and timetables, schedules,

Salaries, side-hustles, mailboxes,

Pay-cheques and savings accounts,

Sunday dates, staff-parties,

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All represent less 

The hard-earned opportunity 

To buy back your own 

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freedom 

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Than they do 

Some clever coercion 

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 to sell it.

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I am railing against the bars of a prison 

That I've bought and paid for myself. 

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And it's funny - you'd think by now

I'd bitten you 

Enough times 

That you'd stop flashing your fingers

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before the entrance

to my cage.

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