Not a poem.

No fancy or quippy phrases.

Just an announcement that being an American adult in 2025 is an absolute scam.

My example today: $1200 for six months of vision. Contacts.

Contacts are not a luxury. Especially when you have sensory problems, and your glasses are heavy, and you have an active career.

Today, as an adult with a college education, I had a panic attack and cried in an eye exam office– and also didn’t get what I went for.

Things aren’t right. My grocery bill is bigger than my mortgage, which is over a grand all by itself.

Look at the percentages of living costs during the great depression, and then look at them now.

If you’re over 45, you have a better chance of being okay, but us below that– we are fucked.

Fuck billionaires and fuck their friends.

And if you think us millennials aren’t working harder for much less benefit than the 2 generations before us, maybe fuck you too then.

Maybe.