Teen Life 2023

Teen Life 2023

Summer is here and school’s out of session

No more teachers and books and lessons

I don’t have to look at real live people

Except on Sunday under the steeple

There is no need to go out and play

My friends are online so inside I stay

I have an X-box and a PlayStation Three

Tons of war games to entertain me

Call of Duty and Modern Warfare fights

Face the enemy through virtual sights

My Facebook account has hundreds of friends

So I know my popularity never ends

I don’t know all their true names or faces

But I share their memes and support their cases

They sympathize with my status and like my pics

Together we survive virtuality and take our licks

Mom and Dad say there’s too much internet strife

They wonder if I have any friends in real life

They’d like me to meet a real live girl

Maybe take her to a movie or out for a whirl

Not sure why I need to go out to meet them

I have all the girls I desire on my every whim

They try to limit access to adult sites and porn

But I know short cuts would make them forlorn

I was going to meet my friend Lucy till she outed as a man

A sex offending pedophile who from police just ran

Lucy had all my secrets and a real nice shot

Of me posing in my undies lying on a cot

Now I’m banned from Facebook and my social clique

Parents just don’t understand the electronic shtick

Out the door I go to face what they call reality

What I see as physical pain and plain banality

OMG, the sun is there and I may actually sweat

I should walk a mile to Ed’s? I’ll die I bet

Still I have my cell phone with wifi access

I can chase Pokemon to relieve my stress

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