Post Generation X

My generation. So to speak

I was born in nineteen eighty 

A birthday kind of hex

My pinnacle is cynical 

Post generation X 

I was Ronald Reagan's love child

Born in a cabbage patch

A Grand Theft Auto Legacy

My key was in the latch 

Instant access pornographic 

The moonwalk slid on by

Berlin wall Disintegration 

When space junk lit the sky 

Madonna Manson Flava Flav

Explicit in content 

Acquitted OJ Rodney verdicts

Justice was circumvent 

 Intern's smearing semen stains

A minstrel lost his head 

Shotgun automatic weapons

When Columbine ran red 

Elect a privileged simpleton 

Flying the terror skies

Concrete and steel disintegrate 

Allah's extremists rise

Tweeting Facebook global village

I've never met my friends 

Spyware information data 

tracking how we spend 

The world that we inherited 

A swindlers debut

Exploitation of the many

to benefit the few 

Carbon monoxide crack pipe dreams 

The climate change complex

The Wal Mart peasant under class

Post generation X 

Author's Note

"When space junk lit the sky" Is a reference to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
"A minstrel lost his head" is a reference to Kirk Cobain's Suicide. The rest of the poem is gravy.

Reviews

[Rita L. Sev]

Yep - I got each reference... I was a HS senior when the Challenger exploded... I'll never forget it. Your generation seems to have gotten lost in all that. A worthy rant, as always!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Rita

[Frieda P]

This is excellent Baby, I love it when you rant so brazenly, intense energy in your every word, and I can relate to much of it....

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you Frieda

[Chris Micha]

Yo! This speaks to me in everyway possible. You have described some of my greatest memories (and not so good ones) in the coolest way. I really enjoyed this piece, sir. Cudos!!!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Christian

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"i never met my friends"----"born in a cabbage patch"

you are the best at rants...but yes, your generation born in 1980, you have captured all of it so well.

i keep thinking soon i will be relegated to being a greeter at Wal-Mart.

this is so good...i was watching it as it happened, The challenger---we were watching it in a tv lounge in the student center at SIU...and it just happened...we all sat there in absolute shock.

[Baby Ricochet]

I remember my mother crying and being scared though I had no idea why