If your living expenses and
Utilities are steady climbing
And the wages are not
Even if you're on a fix income
It's a recipe for disaster
We’re in a young-love recession.
Gen Zers are slow to trust and averse to risk,
we have, it seems, a particular social nervousness
about interpersonal exchanges and the symbiosis of love.
So we resort to situationships (undefined relationships),
a stratagem for closeness, with zero commitment.
You can flirt; you can kiss; you can dance.
You can have a crush so big it blots out the stars
You can have transformative romantic encounters
you can care deeply and get hurt badly
you can, in fact, be absolutely wrecked by love
All without ever being in a relationship.
Thank God we’re only young once.
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Songs for this:
Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
Busy Woman by Sabrina Carpenter
I look around and I see there is no more religion. Only thing people worship anymore is money and addiction way to forget! A way to escape all their troubles! Only to have their problems double! Wash it away with whiskey and beer. Drown it in a bucket full of our brothers and sister’s tears. Snort up all your hopes or take another toke. To forget that in this society we are now all broke!
Surprise!
Money is gone.
Bank account is empty.
I think it is a recession.
Eat less.
Worry blows things out of proportion
Carrying a burden too long will deplete your energy
Having synergy in this life is important
Hence the Word of God puts things in the right context
Knowing this, we can understand why
Recession does not affect the Word of God!
Birds always seek something to eat
They do not worry!
Based on their metabolism
Birds must constantly look for food
They do not worry!
God, the Father feeds them
Even though they must constantly look for food
The Kingdom of God
Destroys the characteristics of Worry
God, the FATHER is the SOURCE
He is our Provider
His Government will take care of you!
Birds always seek something to eat
They do not worry!
Based on their metabolism
Birds must constantly look for food
They do not worry!
God, the Father feeds them
The Kingdom of God is never in a Crisis
Matthew 6:26
[There are many types of birds]
Mark Frank
Copyright 2023
In Recession
We are hitting a recession
I’m in deepest depression
Prices increasing all the time
Even politicians turning to crime
We’re all going down the pan
brother sister woman and man
Still nice to see BP doing well
Making record profits so’s Shell
Still it’s not all doom and gloom
if you’re unable to heat a room
Skip a few meals pay the rent
When you’re homeless buy a tent
Mortgage rates up, pay’s down
Catch a bus and head for town
Get a dog and an empty can
Kitted out to beg, now that’s a plan!
David Cox 04/08/22
I Rise
I open the windows of my humble adobe
I breathe in the mountain air
I make a pot of coffee
Then read the News...
Recession, inflation
Homeless, addiction
Waste on our streets
Men and women on the mall
Lead in the air
Another one falls
Rifles galore
Rockets hit Kyiv
Russia waring
Men take aim, insanely proud
Little ones dying
Africa starving
Immigrants waiting
Refugees seeking
It makes me ill
I open the windows more
I breathe in the mountain air
I see deer in the meadow below
The news spreads
We're going to open borders
Pandemic becomes epidemic
Some people applauded and excited
Feel free to go
Dine-in
Travel
Gathering
Some people anxious and restless
Start to appeal,whine
Complain,criticise,satire
At a loss
It pays to be put in a double squeeze
But epidemic index up
Some people are unprepared
Starkly silent
Start to leave it to chance
Resigned to fate
But still have to make ends meet
Economic recession kills
Famine kills
Prolonged lockdown kills
And so
A lift of various ban
A new implementation
Restless though
We have to leave it to infinity
The unknown
Or to God
Whom maybe
All along we have gone
Astrayed and betrayed
Finally blessings with SOP
And we have to do our parts
Everyone please
If a nickel's worth a quarter and a quarter a fourth of a buck I have a dollar do I have any luck, did I mention man made recession~
10/17/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
Many of us are confused as to value, the convenience of money
O not long ago, GOLD was the real money, today "feelings" hold sway
No paper is wealth, except if it allows for BARTER (Covid-19 has a say!)
Every freshman ought to know: money are notes (promissory)
Your reputation backs money: see "credit" dry up when U don't pay!
NOTE: If you pay attention, or if U did with the rise of PRC. China, since the 1980s, it was a decision made by the G8 nations, that allowed "communist China" to try selling goods to the world at huge profits. Now that a new Cold War exists between Trump's US & the Comrade Capitalists in China, the so-called wealth of China-PRC, will diminish significantly. Politics makes "money for us."
R--Resigned or laid-off from work?
E--Every wish and prayer dedicated to job search;
C--Chopping unnecessary expenses,
S--Saving money for priotized spending__
S--Surviving the financial meltdown,
I--It was not easy to find money or food!
O--Our year of recession kept us busy with simple home jobs,
N--Necessary carefree routines.
chipepo lwele
DERIVATIVES TRADING
I bet
you sweat
BANKER'S PROMISSORY
NOTE
my gosh
what tosh
FINANCIAL TIMES
loan freeze
cash please
REPOSSESSED
no bread
in shed
Drink liquor and smoking trees
escaping the reality of this bad economy
some now choose to steal
in efforts to pay their bills
Making decisions to pawn what they own
doing whatever possible to save their homes
getting by is hard
millions do it without jobs
Politicians promise it is getting better
but those are only words written in letters
come to place my place
and tell it to my children face
Look into their eyes
see the life they are being deprived
watch a father cry
promising to provide, but words turn to be lies
Who has job me
so I can provide for my family
so my wife won't see me cry
so my children won't hear me asking why
Flamboyant extravagance now infra dig
High class labels embarrassing
Enormous houses now freezing cold
Investment bankers – hiding the gold
Green philosophies put into action
Recycled living the latest fashion
Anxiety political personal basic
Maximise optimise – the cant of the wise
Expression depression opinions outpour
Anger, betrayal, corruption and more
Mortgage arrears fuel fears of repossession
Government’s reaction – an impotent regression
Churchmen clinging to their uniforms of history
Vatican keeping church assets a mystery
Emperor’s new clothes glory castles in the air
Expression recession - a very sad affair.
The roses in hand
Have the fragrances of blood,
The land, which I left to earn,
Was not like the one I left,
How could be same,
Even I have changed,
The nightingales have migrated too
Not to gardens but to cities.
Looking for livelihood not Cuckoo
For love to has price to pay,
The inflation and rescission
Have hit all, Like a brick wall.
Faith of man have changed
From communist to capitalist
Socialist some, some atheist
Some peacemaker, some terrorist
World spins on axis, of power or evil
What can I do, whom I can complain,
What does my existence mean to you
Reader of these lines,
Do i move your thoughts to mine
Or does your concern move my pen
What binds us, stranger to humanity
What relations does nightingale
And rose share
Is it the pain of society or
Is it the redness of blood?
That market sells
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