The excruciating talk of teens today. I have to endure it on the bus. I don’t know, but when I was a kid, I am sure we didn’t talk about ‘relationships’ or ‘the environment’ or ‘race’ or personal stuff like a divorce of parents, or even a bereavement (this was on her mobile but we could all hear).
Today one lad was talking about his tics. I had a suspicion he might be putting them on to impress the girl that was with him. It wouldn’t surprise me in this upside down world. But I think they were real. So talk about a personal thing like tics. Talk about a personal thing like divorce. Talk about their ‘race’. Talk about about their ‘sexuality’. Talk about their ‘identity’. These are 13 and 14-year olds. Wow! When I that age the talk was about…well, there wasn’t much talk. Just grabbing someone’s schoolbag, gurning at pedestrians outside (faces at the window) spontaneously attacking one another. In other words, FUCKING ABOUT.
All the teenagers talking serious while the older passengers having a genuine laugh.
What a twisted, fucked up, upside down world we have created. Yes, twisted is the word because the ‘sexuality’ they talk so much about is of course not normal sexuality, but a twisted sexuality. The ‘identity’ they are talking about is a twisted identity. The racism that they talk about has been twisted out of all proportion.
“BUS STOPPING’… Oh, release.
Nominated by Miles Plastic



