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Teenage Wasteland

from Cycle by Straight Panic

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Look at you
14, 15, 16
already wiped clean
a steady diet
of peer review
and community use

Teenage apathy
and existential waste
wrapped with a pretty bow
of suburban infamy
and locker-room fame

All the boys want to be you
all the girls want you
all the girls want to be you
all the boys want you

Your skin is clean
like Roman marble
your features
soft as Persian silks
your personality
as blank as unused canvas
your brain
barren as a landfill

All the boys have already had you
the girls will never notice you
all the girls will never have you
all the boys have started ignoring you

Here I will write my manifest
of all I can make of you
of all I can fucking do to you

Here I will carve my La Pieta
of all I can think of
doing to you
of fucking up all of you
Here i will burn my effigy
of every different use of you
every single way of destroying you

To you hole
I'll do what I want
I'll do what I need
to claim that ideal

To lay claim to you
I'll do what I have to
I'll do whatever it takes
to lay waste to you

Let me save you
Before you turn out like me
Let me spare you
before you turn into me

It's too late for me
and it's far too late for you

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from Cycle, released August 8, 2018

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