you damn kids stay off my lawn!

5 pm traffic 
i’m sitting in and 
i now understand why happy hour is the 
happiest 
i’m tired of being tired 
i can never get enough sleep
but i still go to work
because wine ain’t cheap.

so far being in my 20’s has felt like 
one stage of limbo after another 
and i have no one to blame besides myself 
whose tireless efforts always seem to be in vain 
i don’t think i’m bitter or jaded 
but i find myself saying things an old man would say
who is always telling the kids to stay off his lawn 
where is that coming from? 
i don’t know but the construction in my
tiny town is driving me crazy 
how long does it take to pave a damn road?