ok, boomer,
you fail to recognize how lucky you were
when you were our age.
you want us to believe the scale of your success
when in reality, it was luck.
it was cheap college tuition
and a booming job market.
ok, boomer,
you ruined our economy
when your business caused our drop in ’08.
you kept up your “more and more and more” attitude
until it overflowed and broke.
where does that leave us?
ok, boomer,
you continue to neglect climate change
that has been pressing on our world for ages.
your businesses burned ***** energy
and dumped pollutants into our streams
without recognizing the consequences
we would face.
ok, boomer,
you criticize our tech savvy generation
but you know how it has changed us for the better.
you tell us we’ve been blinded by the screens
and “if we weren’t on those **** phones so much,”
maybe we’d be successful.
our level of communication across the digital world
is better than yours ever was.
ok, boomer,
you insist the “good ole days” were gold
and society will never be the same
but as we change,
we accept our differences—hell, we embrace them.
your “good ole days” are defined
by racism, sexism, homophobia, and more.
you are stuck in the past.
ok, boomer,
times are changing.
keep up.
Dec 26, 2019
Dec 26, 2019 at 7:06 PM UTC
ok, boomer,
you fail to recognize how lucky you were
when you were our age.
you want us to believe the scale of your success
when in reality, it was luck.
it was cheap college tuition
and a booming job market.
ok, boomer,
you ruined our economy
when your business caused our drop in ’08.
you kept up your “more and more and more” attitude
until it overflowed and broke.
where does that leave us?
ok, boomer,
you continue to neglect climate change
that has been pressing on our world for ages.
your businesses burned ***** energy
and dumped pollutants into our streams
without recognizing the consequences
we would face.
ok, boomer,
you criticize our tech savvy generation
but you know how it has changed us for the better.
you tell us we’ve been blinded by the screens
and “if we weren’t on those **** phones so much,”
maybe we’d be successful.
our level of communication across the digital world
is better than yours ever was.
ok, boomer,
you insist the “good ole days” were gold
and society will never be the same
but as we change,
we accept our differences—hell, we embrace them.
your “good ole days” are defined
by racism, sexism, homophobia, and more.
you are stuck in the past.
ok, boomer,
times are changing.
keep up.
sincerely,
generation z