While everyone is complaining
About Millennials ripping the heart
Out of their neighborhood
There are a few things
You should remember:
The Colonial English said that
When The Irish, Germans, and Italian came in
And The Irish, Germans, and Italian said that
When The Africans came in
And The Africans said that
When The Asians came in
And The Asians said that
When The Great Generation came in
And the Great Generation said that
When The Beats came in
And The Beats said that
When The Hippies came in
And The Hippies said that
When The Cops came in
And The Cops said that
When The Drug Lords came in
And The Drug Lords said that
When Generation X came in
And now everyone is telling The Millennials,
Who did what we told them to do
To be successful and productive,
“Get out of my neighborhood
You self-entitled over-paid shit,
You’re destroying my Sanctuary City!”
It’s called Change: the universal constant
that has come to every village on the planet
since we crawled out of our cave and said
“I was here first!”
Guess what;
you weren’t.
Of course
you could always move
to another neighborhood
but. . .what would people say?
Ken Owen
Van Niddy Press November 2017
