just a consumer

I distinguish myself with good taste. Eating food, listening to music, watching movies. I steer my life toward tasty things, like Pac-Man gobbling up dots. I've consumed so much, but what have I produced?

I've made lots of coffees and plenty of plans. The coffees are all gone, and half the plans have fallen apart. Still the customer buys cappuccinos and the employer buys new plans, and my efforts are transformed into a paycheck. Money that's reassuringly countable, that purchases more consumables, so I can hoover up more dots in the maze. The currency comes in and goes out like the tide. Have I ever made anything of substance and value?