I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by joblessness, starving
hysterical unemployed,
dragging themselves through the shuttered streets looking for hiring signs,
better babies bred for billions of opportunities burnt out by the baby-boomers who
begot them,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up typing resumes to send
into the piles of the unknown and unread,
who passed through universities on conveyor belts off cliffsides to fall
into canyons of disuse and dismay,
who cower, beaten animal assistants of abusers who grind them as grist
on their mill,
whose skills exceed that of the last six thousand years yet roam unwanted
by a world that cannot afford them.
(SZ 10.2010)
