You Cannot Buy Groceries with Potential

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They’ll tell you that you have ‘potential’,That with the proper degrees and the right resumeYou could get it all, make every dream real,Go up on the stage of life and have your say.
But they’ll only ever whisper in parenthesis,That this fairy tale had its genesisIn the blackened ashtrays of airless office roomsBroken bodies lost in the factory fumes.
They’ll say you can be anything you want,Just so long as your plans don’t interruptThe 9-hour shift and 3-hour commutePlus any hous...