unemployment blues

when the going gets tough, there is no place to hide.

2 and a half months and counting. unemployed still. surviving by on daily subsistence levels. realizing the best (and only, so far) offer i had was of an internship that paid less than what half of India earns a day. (That's 100 bucks--what i was getting and what more than half of India earns)
Wow!!!

This 'recession' everyone's been talking about--how real a recession is it really?
firstly--India doesn't suffer from recession. It's a slowdown. S-L-O-W-D-O-W-N
secondly--thank the Communists. they've saved India.
thirdly--it's just a fucking excuse for layoffs. cost-cutting benefit analysis.

I am just back from a 5-star. All the lights in the lobby were on. All the valets were working. They had candles on the lobby tables even whiles the bloody lights were on. Stupid stupid aesthetic sense--mine, obviously, not theirs. How dumb of me not to notice--it's the look, dammit.

My friendly Rastaman still grins. Thankfully. My girlfriend is still with me. Thankfully. My maid still takes an off on Sundays. Thankfully.

unemployment blues/ooooooh
life's all loooose/oooooh
i croon all day like a burnt fuse/ooooh
and everyone believes it's all a ruse/ooooooh