The price of food has gone up enough to where my usual budget doesn't get me through the month anymore. I'm effectively being priced out of being able to eat. I can't go back to any food banks until the end of the month. My food share card is inadequate and is already spent. All donations to my GoFundMe go toward groceries, keeping me fed for the month, until I can at least visit a food bank again.

I'm Gen-X, so it's very difficult to ask anyone for help. But I don't know how else I can fix the crisis that I'm in. I've exhausted all other options. Now I'm sitting here, stomach growling, dealing with an AI that insists my plea for help have at least two hundred words. Because it will never understand what it is like to go hungry for a day or more, or to starve. I've said all that seems necessary to convey my current plight and am now more afraid of a banal version of Skynet that demands all calls for help must be at least two hundred words long, in two to three paragraphs, copied in triplicate, with only one staple securing each essay in the upper left corner only, no numbers allowed because they’re afraid of them, no mention of money or they get dismantled while I go to the labor camp.

Please help me get through this month. I don’t know how else to say it to please the AI overlords, so I’m trying my best. I have almost nothing left in my account, and I have no idea how I'm going to get through the next twenty odd days. I know we’re all struggling together here, but I could really use your help. Any donations at all will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.