Technology
Is even more
The coming years.
Life is easier
But more complex
All is instant.
Life is busy
For all the time
All is bullet.
Everything made
In metal base
Flying up high.
Love made instant
Court is easy
Break-up like wind.
Business fast track
Online process
Throughout the world.
I remember a lot of chemistries.
My memories, limbs and bones,
I value these the most.
I know the remedies.
I remember a lot of literacies.
My letters, numbers, and tones,
I make use of these the most.
I know the rhapsodies.
I am remembering how this love is divine:
Our moments, affections, and moans,
I am taken aback to a time
When our love used to be true.
I am remembering how you were once mine:
Our failings, longings, and loans,
I am now so set aback enough
To seek comfort in the newer you.
Oh dutiful, foreboding debt
That I know I must pay
For education I must get
To pad my resume
And yet I feel like I've been robbed
For now it sadly seems
That I can barely get a job
Let alone one of my dreams
Lazy Millennial
Give the Lazy Millennial a damn job
He just plays Mobile Legends all night
And sleeps all day long like a cat
I’ll give the Lazy Millennial a goddamn job
Here’s a shovel son go and clear out the Mt Mataba Jap tunnels
Its two years of back breaking work to shift the soil
You can reload the 20mm cannon in my Messerschmitt 110
Swapping sixty pound full ammo drums for empty ones when upside down
Doing the soiled laundry aboard navy ships
What dirty secrets will you find?
Digging up old wartime landmines to protect the farmers
Defusing them with your ing teeth
All these and a thousand other military tasks
For the jobless Lazy Millennial
The tragedy within the new
school of ‘thought’ ….
To know ‘about’ everything
—while knowing naught
Where universities foster
professorial demise
Poisoning the young
—with their fantasy and lies
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)
When I was growing up, I wasn’t given a tissue,
I was expected to stand on my feet,
I was told to find my own way in life,
I was expected to walk on the street,
Entitled to nothing, worked for my needs,
Never awarded for just showing up,
And folks talked honest, hard and harsh words,
I’d sweat to earn me a buck,
But millennials these days, the softest on Earth,
Expect things without raising a hand,
And the things they demand are to fabricate life,
Real feelings they just don’t understand,
Too busy in bedrooms, glued to the net,
Pretending is their main mistake,
Experiencing real, honest and fair is for me,
While it seems they prefer to be fake.
Millennial Madness
Millennial meltdowns dripping liquid assassins
Hollywood havens dressed in fictitious fashions
Political parasites promiscuous pretenders
Inaugural inquisitions collateral contenders
Suicidal secretions, soups of the day
Tantalizing tyrants, leading the way
Corrosive climates heating the score
Idiocentric inconsistencies waging the war.
Jan.19.2017...^WW^
Millennial Madmen
We are the crazy and we are mad,
Give me your broken and give me your sad.
The united flawed a beautiful mess,
The brilliantly odd an absolute guess.
Millennial Madmen writing the news,
Volcanic dark stars are boiling brews.
The eye of the other seeing much more,
Adventuring lovers that we adore.
These sensitive souls will die for a cause,
The unruly elite follow no laws.
Entertain us or we’ll entertain you,
Creating myth by injecting taboo.
The sky is the limit, we’re climbing high,
Through inspiration we will multiply.
There’s no turning back we’ve gone way to far,
We are your present, enjoy your bizarre.
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