Can't feed a dog

What does dependant mean
when, aged sixteen
your car can kill

at eighteen you can fill
your glass with amber fluid
you can vote, even get married

without permission you can fuck,
get drunk, drive fast and with luck
survive the torrent of electoral promises

yet if you try to improve your intelligence
by entering the hallowed halls of academe
you’ll find independance ain’t what it seems

twenty-one - you’ve got the key to the door
but if you think that you can get much more
money, bad luck honey, the cheque’s not coming

no, even at twenty four your still slumming 
it as a grown up child, dependant on Mum
and Dad - if you want money, borrow some!

we’ll become the clever country - initiative!
grow those plants, sell your body,
give it to science for kicks

learn tax evasion, learn how quick
an alarm can be disabled, a car
stolen  for quick sale, you’ll go far

blowing strangers in alleyways
using up all those giveaways
its time to think on your feet

Parents might have shown the street
to you, yet dependence is bequeathed
the fiscal sword cuts, unsheathed

at twenty five humanity
will be yours, the charity
of our government so immense

its just common sense
students must be poor
and less is always more

you will survive
until twenty five - 
we really do like you

now I’m through
charge your glass
"to the underclass!"