The disconnected generation

i seem to have joined the previous
generation
this admission to the disconnected generation
was initially delayed by lack of offspring
as children are the passport to
obscelence

i find myself exhibiting
victor meldrew- like tendencies
and erupt in inner anger
when faced with litter dropping
youth
or kids on the bus
who sigh when you insist on sharing
the seat

excuse me but when did you buy the fucking bus company?

Is what you want to say,
but instead you bury yourself in the guardian
and ignore their contempt

I don't articulate this anger
as I know the response will be
piss taking of the highest order
and the inner child that still
inhabits me had enough of that
in the school playground

friday nights are no longer
the same
the excited rush to the bar
the extreme
consumption
the sleepy journey home
or to the last tube stop

now I find myself looking
forward to a sober journey home
and feet up in front
the telly with a vietnamese takeaway

I see more things as pointless and a waste of
time
and have no desire to be cutting edge

cutting edge of
today is metephorically the
fish and chip wrapping paper
of tomorrow

I don't want the pipe and slipper routine,
I've never smoked either
I haven't given up on life
Merely changed the parameters

i was around when the rave scene hit
the smileys and acid house
i couldn't be arsed with them at the
time so why now be
bothered with new for old cutting edge

and yet I play
playstation
I am on-line
I download
upload
e-mail
hotmail
talk on line
play on line
yet I still feel disconnected

I have or know
broadband
wap
wi fi
and these things are not alien to me
yet they feel somehow apart
I can't fully immerse myself in their magic

i am intimate with my mobile phone
but haven't evolved into a text monster
my digits don't cut it there
yet I btw lmfao lol with the best and worst
of them

i am connected but feel disconnected
it doesn't come naturally
I'm all wired up
but sometimes I just can't be
arsed.