40% Off: 5 Minute Freewrite

Forty percent
off what? Of what?
If you make forty percent of a living wage
that's not enough.
If forty percent of the people you know
succumbed to the plague
that's too much.
If you were feeling off
you'd hope you'd only feel a touch off.
A fragment.
If you were feeling forty percent off
you'd wake up underground
and have to claw your way up
just to get to surface level.
If you lost forty percent of
your vision or your hearing,
you'd really cling to that remaining sixty percent.
If you got forty percent off on a candy bar
it wouldn't make that much of a difference
in price
but
if you opened that package
to discover that the candy bar
was forty percent
eaten?
It's all a matter of perspective.