Caren Krutsinger Poet Sedoka

Eighteen Lives At Home Now

One question for you
How do children live today?
Renting a room is costly.

In the seventies
Eighteen could rent a full house
For a hundred bucks a month

This could possibly
Today pay for candy bars
In our expensive world

Eighteen lives at home
With his parents and siblings
As does twenty-eight

Sometimes thirty-eight
It is so expensive now
To be a grown up

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Gershon Wolf November 10, 2019 at 12:39 PM ---Though in the long run, perhaps we can suggest that it's more expensive NOT to have (many) children! Your poem has sparked both this comment and its concomitant questionku! See 'The New Math," which I will post shortly. Smiles, Gershon