I can't afford LA, nor Stone Ridge, New York
ni mi Viejo San Juan ni un rincón del corazón
I can't afford these grinding U.S. of A.
ni mi terruño natal, su abusada colonia
I can't afford my toxic friends and family
Can't afford to get old, get sick
Get well or hang around the inkwell
I can't really afford to live
But I'm perversely fascinated by the dark spectacle
of crumbling capital worlds--
Full-disclosure fearful of nothingness beyond
O wimp of little faith, can't afford to kill myself
There is nothing left but indefinite lingering--
Loitering spectator malingering witness
to my own pain and that of so many others
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