If my 20s are supposed to be
the best time in my life then
why am I spending them like
dollar bills I never had,
eaten whole by an economy
whose face sits greedily
on a segregated sky?
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R.C. Taylor
I write to invoke, to process, to honor, to resurrect, and—sometimes—to grieve but, above all, I write to be free.
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🤔🤔 interesting - 20’s are not the best years though so hang on and get ready for the wild ride.
I like your concluding image: 'segregated sky'. And I know that your twenties can be painful. I had to leave my home country to enjoy it!
Believe me, 30s 40s they become 50p and 25p and so it goes. Love the words/