enjoy this Chris Butler writing
in the Scars Publications free 2015 PDF file chapbook: Bummer
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
Teenage Angst
Chris Butler
You’re never too old
for teenage angst.
Twentysomethings
throw temper tantrums
over nothing,
and thirty is
when it’s time to
settle down.
Forty is the new thirty
but fifty is still
half of a century,
and too late for
midlife crises.
But when you have to
breathe with machines
and eat through tubes,