forty-somethings
with nothing to do
now that all their stupid dogs
have caught the proverbial car

it’s not their fault
really
uncle joe has been slipping for awhile
as the former long-format king
now reduced to the lazy-thinking
full-on sycophant suck-up
to the real money
he always wanted to be

how boring

this new world
of constant click-bait clip wars
waged by the next-gen generals
us old farts will never understand

it’ll be decades
before they need to find grandpa
once those among them who care
decide they do

of course our first response
will be to refer them to mom
if we’re still around to do that
so they better be making sure she’s ok
if they have the courage

to face her disappointment
the now-forty-something man-children
will finally have to have learned
the age-old lesson we did

from that famous cat cartoonist
who brought us up as boys
up out of our mother’s basement
and politely said

kid
never eat anything bigger than your head

chew on that that for a bit boys
but not too long
it doesn’t monetize well

Peace/Love/Live/Learn/Share

m(~_~)m