I kept the aspidistra flying.
That and 25¢ will buy me
a cup of coffee. Don't enter old age
with a pair of clapped-out vehicles.
Having to own a car is a tax the Mall Builder culture
imposes on us. Others are health care that's a crapshoot.
You might have it, you might not. Even if you think
you have it. And an educational system that teaches
the test and sells soda pop in the cafeteria. Sugar is poison.
Plus the greatest mind-rot invention to come down the pike
since commercial television, noncommercial public television.