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We are what our parents' parents taught them to fear. The atom of liberated thought, the shallow, the queer, the lazy. We are what our fathers were not, or what they never had the ***** to be. We are united by the hypothesis of instant pleasure. We are measured by dollar signs, nickels, dimes, roaring down Penny Lane blaring hip-hop, dropping the surnames and blaming the slave trade for the stains on our rap sheets. We are what comes after the comma in the history book sentence, sentenced to life in mind-drug prison. Listen! We are going nowhere but forward. We are the generation of disorder, hoarders of unrealized potentials who cross borders just to say we did so. We are the flame of ******* science turning your bibles into embers. We are the generation that remembers to forget. Let us take an inch and we will turn it into a mile so you can watch us march down it single-file while you pray to god we don't make it to Capitol Hill. You know we will. Listen! We are the generation.
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May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018 at 12:00 AM UTC
We Are the Generation
We are what our parents' parents taught them to fear. The atom of liberated thought, the shallow, the queer, the lazy. We are what our fathers were not, or what they never had the ***** to be. We are united by the hypothesis of instant pleasure. We are measured by dollar signs, nickels, dimes, roaring down Penny Lane blaring hip-hop, dropping the surnames and blaming the slave trade for the stains on our rap sheets. We are what comes after the comma in the history book sentence, sentenced to life in mind-drug prison. Listen! We are going nowhere but forward. We are the generation of disorder, hoarders of unrealized potentials who cross borders just to say we did so. We are the flame of ******* science turning your bibles into embers. We are the generation that remembers to forget. Let us take an inch and we will turn it into a mile so you can watch us march down it single-file while you pray to god we don't make it to Capitol Hill. You know we will. Listen! We are the generation.
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Tyler_Matthew
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Tyler_Matthew
27/M/U.S.
May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018 at 12:00 AM UTC
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