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“A Gen X Prescription” ( A Poem)

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By Anton Martin Smith antonmartinsmithwrites@gmail.com or martinantonsmith@martinantonsmith

When a Gen X’er complains, 

Of too much stress and worry,

And of acute overwork 

Why does this said rent-a-doc,

Not prescribe the following,

One hundred percent  guaranteed cure? :

 

Patient to sit alone in a dark room,

On a comfy bed or highly cushioned chair,

Sip a beverage of choice intermittently,

While Listening to 80s/90s CDs,

All on a quality component hi-fi stereo.

 

If pain persists beyond the first two hours,

Patient is to crank out their vinyl records,

And or cassette tapes if needed,

Open another beverage,

The mind will calm believing it’s not yet 1999

“A Gen X Lament” (A Poem)

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by Anton Martin Smith antonmartinsmithwrites@gmail.com or martinantonsmith@gmail.com

I hate it when you have a few wins in a row –

And so you do something foolish:

You stop and think

“Wow I’m actually feeling pretty good right now” –

Cue “the world” to come in & throw a rock through your window.

The rock is of course usually thrown by a baby boomer –

Who saw you slightly less miserable that usual,

& decided to take you down.

That is just what they are like.

They were handed it all by their World War & great depression surviving parents –

“The Greatest Generation”‘.

Their kids The Boomers swiftly got drunk on easy power & bulging property portfolios.

They went against The Greatest Generation’s leadership example,

Swiftly turning the whole world into a ‘Nimby Nimbyland’.

This is happens when you ‘skip a World War’.

And what will be left for us poor Gen X’ers?

Pretty soon all our CD’s will be unplayable & we’ll literally have nothing left at all –

Other than nostagia infused memories for the party-world that still existed,

Back in the eighties nineties and early two thousands.

This was your genuine quality, fully refundable, depressingly realistic,

Gen X Lament.

But somehow we The Latchkey Kids have mostly mentally survived.

I put it all down to the ongoing therapeutic powers……

…..of the hugely overpriced…..

……cheaply mass produced…..

……’90’s Music’ CD.

Of course I could say “Gen X’ers of the world Unite”

But we are not ones for clichés….

And we prefer to be a-political and socially fractured….

Which makes me wonder – are we our own worst enemies?

(Oh well – at least we ain’t Nimbys).