Kids

In their blue rooms of film grain
Fighting a Playstation war
MTV slows down to the pills
Kids floating in the dark

Driving down a lost lane
Flares to light up a lunar park
Graffiti to cover up the world's mistakes
Kids burning a stolen car

Stumble across a zombie mall
They rise up to the roof
As boredom bleeds onto their iPhones
Kids stoned over a first world excuse

Clamoring in empty rebellion
Hollow eyes that see two moons in the sky
They're surrogates of someone left behind
Kids forgotten in the night

Note: Poem inspired by Porcupine Tree's 'Fear of a Blank Planet' and Bret Easton-Ellis' 'Lunar Park'

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