in the 1990’s
your flannel shirt
was a cultural ticket
that took you
greasy haired
through a graffiti pocked
bathroom stall door
to a grunge wünderland
where herpes came standard
with every tribal tattoo
nirvana whining
about your libido
a mosquito
&
girlfriends untrue
your dreams will be
dry humped
in a Geo Metro,
Generation X,
your so-called life…
high school interrupted
…eating Pearl Jam until
Zima vomit came to the house party too
with green apple jollyranchers
attended by
your skankiest girlfriend
who smoked Marlboro Reds
with the acumen
of a triple divorcee
her eyelids
the trashiest
ice blue
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i’ve seen the best minds
of my generation
fail to know about anything
that existed prior to 1980
historically culturally politically
unless it could be read
off a baseball card
a cereal box
or an infomercial scroll
during *Nick -at-Nite*
we are the great feckless mass
of scratch and sniffing
trapper keeping
garbage pail kid
consumer children
left
with no direction
on the living room floor
to play with colorful hunks of plastic
while our parents
watched Dallas and Dynasty
then
fucked the
neighbor next door
as the ocean reclaims the land
and our comfort level with it
we will realize in a collective gasp
we have squandered
centuries of invention, blood, and privilege
with human conceit
.
we have wasted every memory
every idea
every love
by failing the planet
.
we have forgotten to call our mothers
as we were killing each other
over
unknowables
and inflexible
fallible
beliefs
.
don’t go crying to science
science tried to tell us long ago
.
so eat your nachos
and barbecued chemistry lab meats
cheer on your gladiator teams
as they bash their skulls together in a coliseum
enjoy the halftime performers as they twerk and bleat
live stream a diversion
drink your wine and craft beer from sustainable bottles
.
insert artisanal tampons made from the wool of
vegetarian fed sheep
.
file your taxes
.
don’t you look pretty
with thicker, fuller lashes
drop your child off anywhere
so long as you don’t hear their screams
.
pay for neon sex
on the latest smartphone
with that one last good credit card
.
swipe the strip or insert the chip
but do it hard,
consumer culture,
more, baby, more
.
a civilization
blindfolded in agreement
and a few syphilitic mosquitoes
is all the next
mass extinction needs
.