Literature
The point is there is none
When you first start to see life
as a curse, you’re shot down.
Don’t give up, they say, you’re
gonna go far. They fill you with
promises that it’ll get good soon
and guilt trips about how
selfish you’re being. They tell
you “life gets better”
but you realize after awhile
that that’s not true;
life doesn’t change—
you do.
You grow up and your idealism
gets sucked out of you and
everything that happened when
you were a kid is still happening,
but now you have better things
to think about.
Gotta get ahead in the world,
go for that gusto
everyone told you about.
So you break your