Poem For Youth

Now

We don't know anything

But we plan to learn

And see everything there is to see

Because we haven't been anywhere yet

We're going to have to forget every piece of wisdom we've heard if we're ever going to learn

That we'll never be the same people we were before we could drink our parents under the table, and before we knew evil

When the biggest mysteries we knew were

How boys could ever hang out with girls and

That strange trick where your friend's fingers formed a church and steeple

We are not those same people