Booming

I’m a retired baby boomer
Who’s looking for a life
I never seem to get ahead
My life is full of strife

The wife she went and left me
My son has moved back in
My investments fell right through the floor
I’ve put retirement in the bin

I still have to work so hard
But my life is standing still
I’m going round and round in circles
It’s starting to make me ill

I’ve been at work since I was twelve
Was looking forward to the end
It seems that life has other plans
It drives me round the bend

The government upped my pension
But they take it back in tax
I’ve had to take a part-time job
To fill in all the cracks

I cannot find a dentist
The doctors on the blink
If I could afford it
I would begin to turn to drink

My body parts are failing
I groan when I get up
I’ve no one left to care for me
Nobody gives a stuff

I never thought that I would grow
Quite so old so soon
It would appear, my life is fucked
It really has gone BOOM

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