I see you there
with the skinny jeans
your Che Guevera shirt
surplus military jacket
and silly wool hat
In the summer heat
You’re so delightfully ironic
Take another selfie
The world is waiting
Holding its breath
To LIKE your pic
You reject all that is
the status quo
Just one thing?
Do you know
what it is that you don’t?
You talk the talk
You’ve learned your lines
Your indoctrination complete
but can you speak for yourself?
You challenge
Rebel and dispel
Then expel
the lies you are fed
As easily as you reject
Those that know the world
Yet it would be odd
If the young had wisdom
Free thought is still free
But you join the sheep
grazing on the grass
that was planted for you
yonder meadow calls
if you have the goddamn balls
to put down the phone
and try some of its own
different
controversial
unpleasant
real grass
Youth is wasted on the young
I’m gonna take a selfie with this poem and post in on Facebook. 😉
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Good one. I’ll be sure to give you a well thought out, passionate “like” when you do
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🤣🤣🤣
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Love this, Billy!!!! I am going to recite it in my head as I walk though my neighborhood past all the wool hat wearing hipsters on this 80 degree day!!!!
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It’s kind of cruel but I have so many issues with the Selfie generation I felt compelled to put it to paper
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I hear you…..I have a special distaste for the wool beanies in summer thing!
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Wool hat
In the summer heat. That’s my favorite.
Wasted, indeed.
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Glad you liked it
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I have similar thoughts….How’s it going today? Hope you’re not shoveling again.
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Nope. Slipping on ice now. Lol
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