The Broken Things

Downtown Grounds
12oz soy ...somethin' fancy, I forget the name, but it's got Mayan chocolate and orange zest or something
Peanut butter cookie


The Broken Things

There's duct tape
and glue
and chips off
laminated edges;
but there's no real fix
for the broken things.

There's cigarettes
and pills
and pillars of
empty bottles;
but there's no real fix
for the broken things.

There's spare rooms
and backseats
and other people's
couches;
but there's no real fix
for the broken things.

There's second jobs
and food stamps
and maxed out
interest rates;
but there's no real fix
for the broken things.

There's pundits
there's lies -
I'm of no one's
special interest;
and we'll never get fixed
by the broken things.

We'll never be fixed
by the broken things.

-- 8/10/13


So, I went to the college to work out some paperwork crap, and they were closed.  Unfortunately, Greg dropped me off in front and left with the boys before I could signal to him that the doors were locked.  And... guess who's got a home-row and left their phone at home today?  This gal!  So, that's why I'm doing my blog today and just mailin' it in this week.

Also, I uploaded a video to YouTube.  Did I mention I have a YouTube account?  I was originally going to do a video blog, so I started a channel called "RamenistaClass."  Unfortunately, I couldn't blog from home because I didn't have a camera with decent audio at the time, and there was too much baby interference.  So I had to resort to getting myself ye old-fashioned bloggity-blog.  Anyway, this video was prompted by a call from the show "All In" with Chris Hayes on MSNBC.  They wanted stories about life on minimum wage, so I tried to summarize what I had written about in the "Hard Choices" blog.  Check it out, if you like.  And send in your own story while you're at it.  That is all.