The Invasion Persuasion

A blending of voices belonging to city colleges as working class. The young adults of a new generation

Long

Knitted scarves, far as the eye can see

Limitless in color and style

scream out-

“I have arrived!”

A zoo of intellects, we thrive

the kaleidoscope city, windy

our hallways

 

On the blue-collar scene

the first rate vampires

dirt-ridden work boots, running belts

Screeching

like the drunken girls in Kodak

Authority took off and ran some time ago

Suburban keggers,

beggars and sessions

Dundee, Algonquin, and Kirchoff

“This is our town now…”

 

and no one’s there to put up a fight

 

Author's Note

I had to add the streets I grew up on, even if the names harbor no significance to anyone else :)

Reviews

[The Iron Horseman]

This made me laugh. It is a wonderful expression of youth ful pride, enthusiasm and rebelliousness. Very well done.

[Marie]

nice

[Valentine]

If life in college doesn't begin to turn out some math and science majors they will be sweeping those streets for a living..Our last factory here shuts down completely in September...we have two colleges but home grads have to leave to find work..here the kids [in the south] think tripping on meth is more important than school....thats why 1 in 300 is in prison...college was a place for me to study hard and try to make a better life than I had as one of 9 children...God bless...Valentine