Ching
Ching
Ching
$40 gone
A snack split by two
$20
2 slices of pizza
$8
Ching
Laundry
$20
Time
Gone
Ching
Restaurants with higher prices
Meeting higher rents
Ching
Old apartment
Barely able to host guests
While the rent inflates
Uncontrollably
Ching
Instability
Toothpaste
Toilet paper
Ching
Ching
Falling hopes of reservations
How can the prices keep soaring
Questions now
In every situation
“What do you do for a living”
“How do we… live?”
Ching
Coffee $5
Parking
Free
Thank God
How can a city run so freely
Yet so dangerously
Close
To default
How do we survive
What do we do
The Questions
Are now being
Asked in every quadrant
Flee
Maybe
Ching
Let’s call it a night