u/ARunOfTheMillPerson

My eggs went up, I don’t know why. The farmer did less work? I don’t agree. I must concede, a darker something lurked. Then why’d it happen? Why’s my omelet cost the sum of kings? We’ve lost the right to take a look and check up on these things.

Perhaps it was my timeline. I’ve bought them lots before. Perhaps they knew I lacked the legs to grab them from the store. Or rather still, my haircut. It’s bushier than some. Was it my race? Was it my face? A thing that I had done?

Was I just in the median? Or maybe in the mode? Perhaps they simply knew I had a lower class abode. Could it have been my bracket? I’d done quite well, you see. But that was meant so that I could move on with dignity.

The prices aren’t the people, through a screen it’s tough to see. To send out that reminder, we must switch from I to we. They’ll press until we vanish, monopolize the dirt. I’m not just one, I’m all of them, the people this will hurt.

The village rose in giant steps, with ‘pardon me’ and ‘please’. It didn’t come with iron bars, but mandatory fees. The eyes of many, no one there. Identities from view. To verify your every breath and make you pay your due.

Your castle has a keeper, the keeper isn’t you. It’s people that you’ve never met, with goals you never knew. The castle has a garden. The roses give it class. If you think you own that too, then try to grow your grass.

To keep it from decaying takes the burden of a beast, but every action has its toll that goes to most from least. The objects have a price tag, the hidden costs are key. You can’t say no, you cannot go; you buy your right to be.

We mocked the walls of foreign lands, with shackles of our own. We built the cage and then hopped in, then worked ourselves to bone. Our chapters almost over and we haven't got a clue. We’ll build it all again and see the barriers accrue.

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I noticed a man with a raggedy beard when I saw that a woman behind him had leered. Why’d she leer? Was it fear? No, she didn’t look scared. She looked angry, upset, like he shouldn’t be here.

But he is here, I thought. He’s part of the crowd. What faux pas has occurred where he isn’t allowed?

He seemed happy, but messy, and that was enough to make her fairly angry, and frown at his scruff. He was holding a lunchbox and minding his own, and I sobered to think such behavior was shown.

He had done nothing wrong, but he looked not the part of an upstanding peer and it tore at my heart. He was coming from work, I could tell by his hunch. It’s the kind that you get when your work hurts a bunch.

He had done some hard work, a real thing of need. But the way he was treated, you’d think him a weed. Not a thing that was needed, or wanted, or dear; just a fly in some ointment, and a thing to steer clear.

She wore glasses, a blouse, and a luxury belt. Perhaps someone just like him brought their metal to smelt. Someone made them, and shipped them and brought them to here. The prize for the burden? A continuous sneer.

We want all these things, but we often forget how they get here, who made them, the exhaustion and sweat. The times you’re out getting the things most endeared? They never occurred without raggedy beard.

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