
Wasted Years
- Daniel McLaughlin
- Feb 2, 2022
- 1 min read

Sullied Soapbox: Hi! I am in 2020! Is graduate school a waste? I am screwed like the nails for t
he coffins of the elderly in this pandemic. Oh, it feels so wondrous to be included...
I have the drive and intellect to conquer grad school but cannot so much as survive as elude
Poverty Rent is an abstract figure. Sickness is acceptable as a means of death.
Also? Suicidal depression. Anxiety attacks. Fear of being an asymptomatic carrier
of COVID-19 and endangering anyone around me. Convoluted means of securing financial aid (even into that which has been paid). Not knowing if I can stay where I have stayed since the eve of Thanksgiving Day...
My lungs falter on the best of days. I try to be strong but remain afraid.
Eviction awaits while none of us have even used pottery plates (and no silver-bred tastes).
We are the same.
We...
Oui.
Non?
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