When I was 21
I shared a room
With my childhood friend
He worked at the Boys And Girls Club
And I worked at Mcdonald's
We had no money
And one winter
Was brutal
When a heat bill appeared
And it was
$267.23
We turned off the heat in our room
And said,
“First one to turn on the heat is a bitch.”
We got sleeping bags
And several blankets
But still shivered
And saw our breath
As we tried to sleep
All winter long
The thing was
The heat was blasting in the rest of the house
Our other roommates weren’t playing our game
So us
Suffering in our room
Barely even put a dent
In our bill.
And now
I can't help but feel sorry for
The environmentalist
Who try their best
To help this planet
When it hardly puts a dent
In our bill.
-C.H.
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