That's Incentive

Where does everyone's money come from?
I see photos
from NYC and Aruba,
people just livin' it up
on break,
and all I can think is,
how did you afford that?

Seriously,
my family has come a little ways financially.
But I don't understand
how people can just go about
these vacations.

We could barely afford to go
on college visits in New York
for two days,
and that was only two people, not
my whole family.
And I see a whole family
in Aruba.

My parents work to damn hard,
and are too damn smart.
We're refinancing
and we're cutting back
and we still can't get anywhere
because the middle class is
always fucked.

We can't go on a nice
vacation,
we can't fix my car window.
We're working on it,
and hard, too.

But it hurts to see
everyone else in the world
just going all over the place,
especially New York.

Simply put,
I'm really jealous.

I wish I could go somewhere where
there was actually something to do.
Instead
of the Goodwill
and the convenience stores.
Don't get me wrong,
we make it fun,
but honestly.

There's nothing here.