We Didn’t Start, We’re Fired

 

Blame millennials for the missing bar of soap.

But blame their parents for the rest of it:

the postwar settlement they turned to shit;

the rising seas; the flattening and declining slope

of income growth; the OD rate for dope;

George Bush invading Baghdad in a snit;

“prestige” TV; Armstrong’s hematocrit;

Fox News, CNN, the man from Hope.

Even the awful form of this complaint

is accidentally due to Billy Joel,

another boomer bastard: they’ve destroyed

the world in increments, but now they faint

at the minor foibles of the kids today, a whole

generation dad left unemployed.