rebecca

O Generation

By: Rebecca LaFortune


O Generation of the thoroughly smug,

What have we done?

We have messed up

bigger

and better

than any other generation before us.

And what have our antics achieved?

The end of a war?

The birth of rock and roll music?

No, love.

We’ve achieved none of that.

With our self-righteous attitudes in one hand

and our ridiculous fads in the other

we enter the world

as thought it owes us.

Maybe we should send in

our resignation paper early;

tell the generations before us that they have to hang on for a bit

just until the next generation is ready.

That way.

we don’t screw everything else up.