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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=542563" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Gray Area</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=542563" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a gray area exists when the light dulls &<br>when it begins to tint this way<br>we run frantic, like the unluckiest chicken on the<br>farm, <br>who’s up next for a beheading-<br>like roaches scampering from a dry place to a damp one &<br>though the light is craved by many<br>the reality is that so many more live in the darkness<br>wishing, wanting & waiting<br>for a chance to walk into the gray<br>with that almost seemingly impossible notion that<br>the light on the other side<br>may be open to one more<br>occupant.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=542563" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">crossing through the gray area requires a better hand<br>than one is born with, <br>if one wasn’t born with the silver spoon-<br>it requires those things found necessary to survive<br>under the man’s pressing thumb<br>it requires money, ultimately &<br>in the disease ridden system <br>which breathes in dollar bills (for now) <br>in order to get it, <br>there are a series of steps perpetuated by the old money &<br>updated, supported & thrust upon the rest of us by the<br>new money-</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=542563" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">so that if you stay in school &<br>if you do well in school &<br>if you apply to college &<br>you get into that college &<br>you don’t dropp out from that college &<br>you do well in that college &<br>you apply to a grad school, or a med school or a <br>law school &<br>you do get into that school &<br>you do well in that school &<br>you come out of that school all the better, <br>you are supposed to be well equipped to<br>get a job whose pay will correspond to all the years spent<br>going in & out of schools<br>keeping your brain to the metal &<br>putting anything else in your life on hold<br>until you are ready to make that paper in the<br>“real world.”</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=542563" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">but when all your academic struggle is over, <br>you still have all the debt you accrued while<br>dreaming<br>that one day you’d be able to pay it all off, <br>that one day, <br>you’d be able to walk through that gray area<br>from dark to light &<br>thrive, <br>like the good capitalist empire has <br>promised-<br>in fact, if you have traveled from other countries<br>believing all the images & stories <br>from exported american films, <br>you are in even more dire straits, <br>for the inability to get a job & <br>pay off all the debt, <br>might mean dragging yourself back to your <br>native country, <br>now, with a debt the size of jupiter &<br>nothing but disappointment in the eyes of <br>all the people who put their beliefs in you<br>when you decided to move to <br>“the land of the free.”</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=542563" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">staring in the mirror<br>said individual finds themselves stating out loud<br>(as if anyone was listening) <br>that “had i known things were going to end up like this, <br>i never would have tried so hard.”</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Andrew+Delapruch">Andrew Delapruch</a></strong></div>