No community spirit......

The local kids.

I  feel sorry for

As there is actually

nothing for them to do.

In the area, I live!

All you seem to see.

They are hanging

around.

The local streets.

And at the local McDonalds

and KFC restaurants,

and hovering

outside

the local supermarket stores.

Theirs

seems to be

nothing in the

local area

for the kids

to do that

That is free!.

No community centre.

Libraries are closing down.

Sports centres and

swimming pools. Are not

cheap to get in.

For anyone, at least of all

for teenagers.

To have to pay and use.

and hang out in.

So,  everything basically

costs money

for them.

To get in

and use.

To make

new friends

and to simply

have a laugh

as teenagers do.

So, onto the street corners.

They will hang around.

And get called " being

a pest" and" wish they

would move on"

and "go the f**k  away",

I do hear!.

Intimidating the

residences and customers

at these said places

and stores.

Some people think

and shout out

to the youngsters.

But actually,  these kids

are just bored!

Got nowhere

to hang out.

Unlike,  in my day.

My mates and myself

hung out

at my

house

or we meet at

theirs.

Outwith the usual

places at thee homes.

We go to the local

park. And getting

out and about

and  go to the usual

house parties

and all that.

That is what

you did

growing up.

So they do just that,

and that is why they

are where they are!

Because of some of us

also did the exact

same thing some

of the kids.

Do even today.

Hanging out at corners

KFC & McDees

Drinking and doing weed

and the odd times

on top

being a right

"pain in the a*s"!

But mostly it's

because they are

so bored and have

nothing to do!

And so little bit of

spending money

in general

from pocket money

and odd jobs.

That they put the money

together

to  buy beer or

cheap alcoholic, via

the older looking teen

out the bunch!

Then they drink and so

some do daft things.

To fill in their time

spent on the street

going out of their

minds so numbed

by boredom.

But basically,  if the teenagers

had a place to hang out.

They would not get

into trouble,  with the

adults. And they would be happy

without an alcoholic drink or the need for weed.

To hide the sheer

and utter

mind numbling.

The tedium of a youngters

life.

Apart from home life

and school.