planned obsolescence
has me damn near paranoid

refusing to buy anything new
no technology
no clothing
no materials for making my own things

no cloth for fear of fraying
no printers for fear of subscription fees
no streaming services for fear of handing money to those
who would throw our country down the already flushing toilet of
fascism, and throw our planet farther away from able to
reverse this man-made curse of global climate crisis

can i survive on what i have?
or buying second-hand [hopefully from
reputable sources themselves]
mending and making with the items i’ve hoarded
over the last few decades of my life?

[perhaps my depression-raised grandmother was right]