If only you dear children had also been reading Gore Vidal at age 15
in-between breaks of brewing coffee,
then you might not be so surprised at the turn of events in our world today.

If only you had in your golden youth the propensity to sniff danger in the air,
rather than awkwardly sticking your faces in plastic cups of booze,
and the nether regions of the opposite sex.

If only my cynicism hadn’t grown so strongly.
But, I dare say, no warning of mine could have rattled the Earth.

Our fate was inevitable, either choice of hobby.
Perhaps I would have been better off drinking.

Except:

If I had not already succumbed to the wave of cynicism
after watching optimism, my birth right, die,
I would never have had to fight my way out of it,
nor happen upon the wisdom that is neutrality.

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