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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.
Copyright ©
James Edward Lee Sr.
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