Just Bitter Nonsense

IT'S ALMOST TOMORROW Y'ALL In 18 minutes it will be tomorrow PROFANITY WARNING (it's just 1 you'll be fine) Possible trigger warning with brief mentions of Nazis

I feel like older generations in our country 

Are like a bunch of bitter old people

Gathered around a play pen with a bunch of toddlers

Observing quietly and tittering haughtily at their slip-ups

Throwing in fun toys 

Like an unstable economy and a resurgence of Nazi-level supremacy

Sighing dramatically when they just get louder because of it

And when the toddlers look to them for help

They clutch their parasols and canes

And turn away indignantly

Except those toddlers are still people.

And, analogy-wise, they are Generation Z.

The screaming, tide-pod-eating, hopeless bunch of children.

I am sick of this being our representation.

We are classified by all the bad people in our generation-

"Well, you're all obsessed with Drake/Logan Paul/

Insert Highly Popular and Fairly Controversial Figure Here."

Is that proper protocol? 

Because I don't think many people I know would be happy 

If I summarized their generation by all of the bad people living in it.

We may be doing stupid s**t like eating laundry detergent,

And dancing in public, and being loud and wild,

But it's just a bit less offensive than than gassing Jews and building walls-

I could be talking about The Berlin Wall or Trump's hypothetical wall. 

The dude is 71, we're not claiming him as representative of our generation. He has wrinkles older than us.

Some of us are eloquent.

Most of us are unheard.

We're the people you were taught not to accept:
Queer, POC, Jewish, Atheist, and the like-

But guess what?
You made us. So you have to put up with us.

Or, at the very least,

Could you just help us make OUR world a bit better?

We're all here on Earth, regardless.

No social media remarks or wrinkles
Are going to protect you from climate change, and threat of nuclear war

And all that jazz

We're all in this together

We suffer the same.

Some of us more,

Some of us less.

But don't we all need help?

Oh, don't we all.

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