Where Have All the Corduroys Gone? (America)

Corduroys    
Aren’t the only thing      
Giving      
A faint heartbeat,    
(I just couldn’t find any in the stores this season)      
Cashiers are      
Imperceptible      
Skeletal,        
(Stores are running      
Themselves)      
So you have to      
Wait in line      
To spend      
“Your money”      
As if, the      
Long standing=      
Names (JCP)      
Closing=      
Weren’t enough;      
Empty lots      
Depreciating=      
The Neighborhoods      
Physique,      
And with the      
Dark roads        
Up head      
People are      
Using=      
Their house lights      
To offset      
The street lights
(None in the country
I guess you call it)   
That aren’t there      
For cars      
(If ya ask me)      
In even      
Townships      
With an “average”      
Sounding it out/      
Squinting it out-      
(Median      
Household      
Income      
Of $100,000; easy)      
Welcome to the future.      
       
(Sitting here looking      
All crazy; for real      
Got in late; forced to go      
To the mall for corduroys; -      
2 pairs were good enough      
And I was lucky to get      
Those- kohls)      
       
{And nobody gives a damn}      
Welcome to the future.    
     
     
#sign of the times  
#you'd have to be a genius not to catch it