Kids Those Days

Me and my buddies used to pretend to be seniors

We’d hunch over and say things like

“Get off my lawn”

Or

“Kids these days”

Or

“Why don’t you respect your elders?”

And we’d laugh and laugh at the decrepit old people

Now my opinion is changing

I recently said

“Kids these days”

Without irony

I haven’t said

“Why don’t you respect your elders”

Yet

But I have thought it

And the only reason I haven’t said

“Get off my lawn”

Is that my front yard is tiny

And is mainly one big tree

So there is no lawn for kids to get on

Or off of for that matter

But all I really want to do

Is reach back in time

And slap myself in the face