make it hard to see.
Imagining all the children you can’t afford to keep in style,
or even send to die on Mars,
can be stressful.
The cost of swimming lessons,
makes it so hard to think,
or pick out furniture, or stay in one place.
At least you know there will be pictures (though not real pictures),
of pyramids supported by your hands,
and the time you pissed yourself, while drunk by a sun-drenched sea.