Penury

Is public housing thru need not want

Is more spent on rent than food

Is final notice bill payments

Is the ring in only phone

Is doing the busker shuffle

Is the bedfellow of loneliness

Is all your shopping at Not Quite Right

Is mechanically seperated meat

Is uht milk - cheaper than fresh

Is frozen vegetables - as a treat

Is sausages sausages sausages

Is tinned, packet everything

Is lentils rolled oats lentils rolled oats

Is two dollar all you can eat Hare Khrishna food

Is eating entire product display in supermarket

Is never having take-away

Is minimal electricity use

Is clothes clothes clothes instead of gas heater

Is your Op-Shop wardrobe

Is the holes in the blanket

Is the cigarettes you pay strangers for

Is wine from a box from a box from a box

Is the medicines you can’t afford

Is familial estrangement

Is xmas with the Salvos’

Is trying to avoid G.S.T.

Is slipped thru the cracks

Is symptomatic of psychosis

Is disaffected alienated persecuted

Is self inflicted

According to Gov’mint.

 

Martin Downey.