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Generations

by Laura W. Haywood

 

The baby boomers invented sex,
rebellion,
pot.
Not.

Their generation's the most unusual ever
to come a-
long.
Wrong.

They were unique and independent, of
brave ideals
full.
Bull.

They thought that they would change the world
in deed and
dress.
Yes.

And now, surprise, they're getting old; they thought
youth would en-
dure.
Sure.

They loudly speak of menopause, as youth
flies out the
door.
Bore.

They bombard us with reports of what
to them is
new.
True.

We're sick and tired of always having
them in our
sight.
Right.

And heaven help us, right behind them's Gen-
eration
X.
Vex.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that X
in turn will
whelp.
Help.

Laura W. Haywood is a graduate of Finch College. Her career includes representing newspapers for national advertising when she was the only woman repping papers in New York at the time. Stints in public relations and development followed at Jacksonville and Princeton Universities as well as one in public relations for a major corporation. Laura's fiction and poetry has won a number of prizes and has appeared in The New York Times ("Metropolitan Diary"), Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Galaxy, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and a number of other magazines and anthologies. She edited or co-edited (with Isaac Asimov) two science fiction and one mystery anthology. Laura is the author of the recently published novel "The Honor of the Ken."