Teen Youth Ager

Submission to 2014 INTERGENERATIONAL POETRY SLAM ELDERS AND TEEN TRACK University of Nebraska, Omaha Nebraska In some states I can vote, but yet afraid I can drink alcohol, but can't rent an apartment Some states I can marry well at 12,14, 16 But I am still a child without means I have all the parts of an adult Yet they of whom I do not trust I drive a car fast, but I won't last I bus, I just cuss then crash I can't remember what I had for lunch last I won't even do my own wash or dirty dishes Cut the grass or turn off light switches Pimples, low self esteem, nightmares video streams Cell phone, Facebook, don't need to read books or magazines No it all incontinent lost in elements Give me equality, freedom without grown up stress Let me alone dispute my age I am free I am grown Give me truth I am youth to have fun Youth with no truth Teenager forever Can't die because I am a teenager a teenager forever Until I turn twenty, twenty to one No time for mom or dad Again give me freedom Without the rules and lectures A teenager A teen youth ager with the demands of gold and silver I am just a Teen Youth Ager 07/20/14 written words by James Edward Lee Sr.