#degenerates
They say we're degenerates
as we walk with sore shoulders,
flimsy backs, fractured dreams.
The word millennial is used like
some derogatory word --
we're meant to feel like ****
because our parents failed us.
Because smartphones help us
release dopamine.
Because we're addicted to
virtual realities.
Because we **** strangers
that we hope validate us.
No one understands why
the news says this about drugs
and this about violence -- or why
we do 'those things' and if we
have any 'goddamn sense'.
It's beyond them.
Maybe beyond us.
It's higher than our weekends;
lower than our expectations.
May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 8:51 PM UTC
If you wanna be the same,
be the same with me --
I swear we’ll always
blend right in.
And when you say
you don’t like Jaws,
I'll still be a Peeping Tom
behind your books.
When you lie, Maggie-Pie,
about the movies you’ve seen,
it makes the Tom Waits you like
seem contrived.
Degenerate drug kids,
too high to be a star,
in love with moments.
Give me my moments,
my lifeless promise
to always have a car
and insurance.
If you wanna be lazy,
be lazy with me --
I swear we won’t
ever do ****
And when you bop
your head to Kendrick,
I’ll watch you melt
underneath the strobe.
Place your finger on a globe,
tell me where you think
you could be, then tell me
about your perceived
self-worth.
Degenerate punk kids,
with more ink than squids,
and a tip-jar future.
Give me my future,
my hurried ten years;
you know my twenties;
you know my reason.
Give me my reason,
give me my reason, give me my reason.
Feb 14, 2017
Feb 14, 2017 at 3:44 AM UTC