I like to sit across from my __ She usually tells me about how I should be better. But I don't want to be. Everyone says my generation's only talents are to keep our legs open and Our mouth's closed. I like to think we can read and write and Fall in love with strangers on subways in the forgotten underground. Everyone says that we don't know how to live righteously But if we were never taught how can we learn? Someone once told me to keep my legs shut, They told me ladies know better. They told me when their eyes not their lips. They told me to keep my mouth closed. They told me with their actions not their words. But it doesn't matter now. If you're going to say to me: "You're from that generation" I'll say to you: "If you wanted to change us you should have taught us If you wanted us to pave the way you should have shown us the starting Road We were taught to sing praises to those who came before us. But what for?"