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This generation of OnlyFans makes me sick. I'm a young mum, and thank goodness I had a boy.
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Jan 22
Jan 22, 2026 at 11:41 AM UTC
Disgust
By birth I’m Gen Z, that’s true, but their strange standards I just can’t do. I can’t be polite and abusive in one breath, or worship celebs like they gave me life or death. I won’t wear brands just to prove I belong, or sip on a drink and call culture strong. I can’t post my life just for Instagram views, or cry “period, slayy” when I’ve nothing to lose. I won’t call lust love, then hashtag “forever,” or stage breakups in reels, claiming “healing’s so clever.” So yes, I’m Gen Z by time and by name, but with a little common sense, I don’t play that game.
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Aug 30, 2025
Aug 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM UTC
GenZ Generation
Boom... Bang. There he lays… There she stays all alone and cold. She’s bad… He’s in a gang. Where all the good things? Cause all I hear is the bad’s that have been told. Cuz all I hear is the wrong, slavery in my family they were sold, But we’re just learning about the past, not doing anything to change it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s permanent so we can’t rearrange it, But why are we just learning about it, instead of learning from it. We try to make a slight change, but then give up and it plummets. I know I’m young, so I don’t know much about life, But I feel like the way the world is it’s not going right. Yeah, it’s a “New Year. New Me.” kinda feeling, But in this way of life, I don’t know how we’re dealing. With being in a world where so much is revealing, So many are hurt, but yet there is nobody healing. There was judging back in the day, I know, I shouldn't I say “back in the day” but I have to say that I was taught this way. To look not only in your future but look back in the past, But focus on your culture because you're black and you’re “Free at last”
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Jun 16, 2017
Jun 16, 2017 at 4:20 AM UTC
"Free at last"
The future of the world is in our hands Of this country that we stand The future of our lives is in our hands Of the peace that we please for demand The future of the world is in our hands From now on I have a plan To be one in the eyes of the sun To sing songs with the ones who are long gone To play a game of life or death To want more then what we guess The future of this land is in our hands Of all people to expand We need to unite To hold hands with no fright With no harm in our words With no tear in our soul or our eyes We must keep our eyes on the prize To love and need the grown ones to see We aren't that bad after all The future is in our hands Of course we know this Yes we noticed That it is time for a change Time for a place Time for a chance to stand tall as one As a whole on this earth The future is in our hands From now on I have a plan To be hard on my soul Live long and live whole Be full of trust and full of lust Never to forsake the ones we love The future is in our hands And yes I still have a plan Be fruitful but not by popular demand Be strong and powerful in the face of our rivals As they try and take our rifleish voice Our army stands tall We crawl high up the wall We longingly live to govern these people The ones dumb enough to give Dumb enough to not be able to see that the new generation has me
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Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016 at 9:42 AM UTC
The future
I hate you, parents Yall hurt us the most when yall post to protect us "Fight for your children!" Naw it's easier to neglect us Tell grandma don't be afraid of me Because my generation is reckless We're labeled naive, wild and disrespectful But to receive it you must first respect us Mothers wonder why you bury strangers wearing daddy's necklace                       Who thought it was good for them to want power and wealth? Welp, you raised them like that now bury them by yourself I was conceived to a house they already knew was broken and torn They let me believe when I die I'm going down in flames just to burn I got health and mental problems   I didn't ask to be this way But guess I'm forced to live and learn. For a beautiful death, that's all I pray
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Oct 4, 2015
Oct 4, 2015 at 1:43 PM UTC
I Hate Parents
Her face, flawless and filtered, flows over my chest, ribs, stomach, hips, fitting the curved mounds of my body, and even within simplicity of thread and dye, I sense her presence as her face hangs from my frame, a statement louder than pillow-lips, Nancy Sinatra-hair and a glamorous 60’s ***** face. When paired with leggings and an artfully-distressed denim jacket, I become a member of the “freshman generation of degenerate beauty queens,” a hipster fallen to the circumstance of youth, but I wear her face and the romance of it all reminds me: we are not defined as Lolitas lost in the hood, or distant, airy voices in a sea of crude jokes and half-baked skits meant to highlight shortcomings of a person who doesn’t give two ***** Lana fits me better than my ribbed, red sweater and even amidst gods and monsters, this T-shirt makes pretty last, and I am just as cool.
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 12:33 PM UTC
Ode to My Lana del Rey T-shirt
Please allow for me to say What I believe needs to be said. Step aside for one minute And let me through. I have words flying through my mind And dreams aching out of my soul. I have something to give to this world If only someone will listen. Do not let your prejudice Decide for you, Rethink your unimagined views And allow me to come through. For I am here And I am now. I am your future And I am your present And I am your only option. So raise me right And guide me on But do not try to influence me With aged rituals And tired ideas. Allow me to speak Allow me to tell you my ideas Allow me to take your place Because your time Is up.
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 9:04 PM UTC
Youth
I can only write on the computer. And I suppose that that’s not really the right thing to say, because people are going to say that I really am part of the next generation who survives solely by technology. I really do try to write on paper, but I can only use pen because pencil smudges too easily and the end gets so dull, So when people say that they can’t send me a link to one of their favorite poems because it’s on paper, my respect for them goes up by about sixty percent. The part of writing on paper that scares me the most, the part of speaking in real life that scares me the most is that I can’t delete words. On Microsoft Word, I can go back and add words into the middle of my poem, I can look at it as a whole and as a half and everywhere in between, I can delete half of it and forget about, and that half will be lost forever. But the way my fingers sometimes stick to the keyboard reminds me, I think, that the words that I’ve deleted stick with me forever, no matter how lost they are. They’re not in some vast, infinite vacuum of the internet- but stuck to my fingers because that was the only physical presence of those words at the time they were given life. (Baby ducks follow the first moving thing they see when they hatch,) And it’s some weird, modern folk tale, how the words got life, and how the words died. So maybe if I’m the only one who can’t write on paper, then this word carrying curse is the punishment? It’s a special flaw that makes the protagonist unique but relatable, (along with making her not able to spell anything and not able to talk to people) And if poetry is just rambling and writing is ranting, then what are words. The cancerous cells in a slice of bone marrow? More likely some hellish creature that comes out of everyone only at two in the morning, or the sticky stuff that I feel sometimes on my keyboard (or is it my fingers?) Because my sticky fingers are a word’s physical form, and if you think about it, you really can’t ever touch a word. They’re either soundwaves or dried ink on a dead tree, or pixels on a screen. (or on your fingertips or your tongue.) And I carry them with me everywhere, on my tongue and on my sticky fingers.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 8:45 PM UTC
Sticky Fingers
I can only write on the computer. And I suppose that that’s not really the right thing to say, because people are going to say that I really am part of the next generation who survives solely by technology. I really do try to write on paper, but I can only use pen because pencil smudges too easily and the end gets so dull, So when people say that they can’t send me a link to one of their favorite poems because it’s on paper, my respect for them goes up by about sixty percent. The part of writing on paper that scares me the most, the part of speaking in real life that scares me the most is that I can’t delete words. On Microsoft Word, I can go back and add words into the middle of my poem, I can look at it as a whole and as a half and everywhere in between, I can delete half of it and forget about, and that half will be lost forever. But the way my fingers sometimes stick to the keyboard reminds me, I think, that the words that I’ve deleted stick with me forever, no matter how lost they are. They’re not in some vast, infinite vacuum of the internet- but stuck to my fingers because that was the only physical presence of those words at the time they were given life. (Baby ducks follow the first moving thing they see when they hatch,) And it’s some weird, modern folk tale, how the words got life, and how the words died. So maybe if I’m the only one who can’t write on paper, then this word carrying curse is the punishment? It’s a special flaw that makes the protagonist unique but relatable, (along with making her not able to spell anything and not able to talk to people) And if poetry is just rambling and writing is ranting, then what are words. The cancerous cells in a slice of bone marrow? More likely some hellish creature that comes out of everyone only at two in the morning, or the sticky stuff that I feel sometimes on my keyboard (or is it my fingers?) Because my sticky fingers are a word’s physical form, and if you think about it, you really can’t ever touch a word. They’re either soundwaves or dried ink on a dead tree, or pixels on a screen. (or on your fingertips or your tongue.) And I carry them with me everywhere, on my tongue and on my sticky fingers.
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