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Old People Rant

Do old people ever wonder about the children they abused?
About how their kids grew up so confused?
Remember how you tried to please them? Remember when?
And why you don't want to talk to your parents again?

Their generation was dysfunctionally inherent
Proving that some people should never be parents.
Thank old people for leaving us a mountain of debt
Their shameful legacy we can't forget.

Old people look like a prune
They can't die a minute too soon
They are so mean and sour
Over their Rosaries they so rightously glower
At young people for the sin of having sex
Their words like a damning hex.
Acting like an old school Soviet,
They should all drop dead, better yet.
It won't make us to upset
To turn Grandma into Soylent Green,
And throw Grandpa into the trashing machine.

Bitterness is the only thing keeping them going,
The thrill of orgasm they'll die without knowing.
Hitting and abuse was their child-raiseing psychology,
and they never kept up with technology.

They scholded us before we could even talk,
now they're bitter that they can't even walk.
We young people don't need your simple-minded morality,
and your negative, bitter mentality.

The 1940's you recall with such sentimentalilty,
the 60's you condemned with such brutality
And you accuse my generation of immorality
of which you have no rationality
Anything that happend after 1963
is a mere triviality.

We do not deserve the condemnation
of your sexually repressed generation,
and we don't need the condemnation
of a gereration that hasn't got laid since the Eisenhower administration.


Author notes

Just a rant. Old people can be a bitch, sometimes.

What do I need to improve? Imagery? Rhyming scheme? How can I make this more "poetic?"

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Comments

  • Piano Guy
    February 17, 2008
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    The last stanza made me laugh for a few minutes, but the entire poem is painfully true. I am reminded of my parents and their old ways. The older generation is always resistant to the new. As for the writing, I love the way the last two stanzas rhyme. This is well written, funny, and true. I enjoyed it! Keep up the good work!


  • Riveralex gold member
    February 17, 2008

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    Very well observed...

    ... and again - very very funny. I particularly liked the lines

    Acting like an old school Soviet,
    They should all drop dead, better yet.
    It won't make us to upset
    To turn Grandma into Soylent Green

    Bravo - more fun than a catfight in a carwash. Best RA