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| MORE CROUTONS Is Paxil my cure? I see advertisements on the TV. “Do you worry all day, everyday? If this anxiety has lasted six months or more you could have a chemical imbalance”. I worry everyday about becoming homeless. I have an economic imbalance. I have given up buying “luxury items” with this last rent increase. No more clothes, kid’s toys, or non-food items. I use all of our income for rent. I get fuel assistance. I pinch our pennies. We have one TV, one radio, and one toaster. We have no microwave, car, or any other fine thing, that I didn’t already sell. I use food pantries. I walk everywhere. I wash clothes out by hand. I worry everyday that the kids will make too much noise; that a neighbor will complain. I try to keep them quiet, but they’re kids. |
I don’t complain about
the lack of hall lights, the broken windows or the
dripping facet. I don’t want to remind him I am here
and he could raise the rent again. I worry everyday. Too many people I know are already out there, I couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t survive it again. It wouldn’t be the same as going to the woman’s shelter. I wouldn’t be finding freedom, I am still a prisoner of war. In this war on poverty, we aren’t winning. I don’t think Paxil will cure it. C. Duffin Coping "Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." So they say. I'm not coping well. Are you? |