Things Not Worth Fixing - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

After graduating from college

I moved back home to my parents' house in Fenton

It would be the first of three more separate stints

My brother helped get me a part time job

Peddling paint at Sherwin Williams

The idea was to stay for a year and save up

And plan for our wedding

All of our friends had already moved away

Or were still off at school

So it felt like a ghost town

Or defeat

I was not a model employee

I was frequently late and felt my education made me overqualified

And that the job was far beneath me

I reeked of youth I thought the world was owed to me

Each morning contractors would pour in like vultures on carrion

And pick the store clean