Lifeline

Being broke is being alive. There is no greater indication that you are a living, breathing creature like poverty. We all need to eat and drink,

enjoy,

confer,

travel,

and host.

We need to use resources like electricity, water, plumbing.

We need to assert our social status by securing the newest, high-tech devices to watch,

play,

text,

surf,

and photograph. These things I mentioned, and the other stuff I left out, cost money.

Now I can pay for it with my dollars and coins, or my partner’s, or my parent’s. But there’s no escaping the transaction.