There's nothing, worse (right??? Wouldn't know, NEVER worked a DAY in my god damn, life here…)…
Midlife AND, out of a, job, with a wife I keep, kids going into college, needing their, tuitions, room and board, and spending cash, and I just, got, laid off!
Midlife AND, out of a, job, I don't know what to do next in life, I mean, I'd begun working, right out of high school, 'cuz life needed me to, and, because of work, I couldn't find time to get higher up that ladder in my education, and seeing those who'd started working later than I had "arrived", all climbing up that, corporate ladder, I'd, wondered, is this, it for me? Is this, what I'm, good for, a middle class, NOBODY, TRAPPED by the, blue collar, life?
with the downturns of economy, hitting the world, H-A-R-D!!! Photo from online
Midlife AND, out of a job, with NOT enough days of life worked to get my, 401K or, social security, I got, NOTHING to show for all the hard work I'd, put in, since, my teenage years…Midlife AND, out of a job, what am I supposed to do now, with the bills, piling up, the bank, threatening to, repossess that beat up truck (let them have it!), and, I'm late on my mortgage too…
Midlife AND, out of a, job, with only that ONE SET of skills, that's carried me, thus far, and I'm too old to catch up, to learn those, new skills needed to, get me that job. Can't even update my résumé, as I'd worked in that, factory plant since, I got out of, high school at age, eighteen.
And, all I got to show, for my life, is these, old, weathered hands, the holes on the soles of my shoes, worn out jeans, and, I'm now on, social, welfare, and that's not enough, quite enough, for groceries, as the costs of everything, hikes up, higher, higher, and higher, and soon, I won't be able to pay for my utilities, and rent, then, I will become, one of the, homeless, that fights for that bed spot, at the shelter every night for the, rest of, my elderly years…
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