2022 - 08/30- Adolescence

[skonen_blades]

The dripping wallet
The soft cash register
The damp IOU of puberty
That thief
That fae-folk replacer of children
Swapping our little ones for volatile doppelgangers
Turning them into crazed horses set loose on reality's minefield
Improv with consequences
The shape charges of experience
Separating each contestant into either the lucky or the emotionally amputated
Its a spectrum of body horror
Low trauma for everyone
Cursed knowledge bestowed
Brains morphing slug-like into new shapes
Parents revealed as fallible
The magic carpet of childhood is yanked out from under them
And they fall into the stinking soup of pheromones
Its not all bad
There are good times to be had
During this violent graduation
This biological gauntlet
This possession
As hormonal accelerant takes the wheel
And the Sauron eyes of the world
Notice them
Their bodies
Their spending power
Let us pray

Our puberty
Who art a time bomb
Whorehouse be thy name
Thy wet dreams come
Thy thrills be random
At home as they are in high school
Give us this day our pubic hair
And forgive us our awkwardness
As we forgive those who awkward against us
And lead us into temptation repeatedly
But deliver us from permanent damage
For thine is the chrysalis
The reeking transformation
The handful of years that take forever
Amen




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