Debtor's Prison

falling four days
sideways 
the crux of capitalism
crushing financial happiness
into a credit card cube
panicked children chained in debt
to failing governments and corruption 
walking green bricked roads
from Wonderland into the abyss
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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February 21, 2019 at 6:00 PM
Even worse than that is plundering our natural resources so your offspring can not earn a living to repay the debt they have inherited! Aloha! Rico
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