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fuckyeahpatisdope: Transitions Hershey Writes From Barbies to Babies. From PS2s to STDs. From Hide and Seek To H.I.V. What Happened To Us? Why Did We Move So Fast? We were barely out of A-cups when girls started showing up pregnant to class. From Barney to Bullets. From Gameboys to Guns. From brand new Teddy Bears to Newborn sons. Snowballs hitting your back to bullets piercing your lungs. What song made you stop having fun? What lyric convinced you at 12 to go get some….for the first time? From Crayola to Crack. These girls give birth to their second child before the first can read, write, add or subtract. What degrees can you earn lying on your back? I promise Lil Wayne will never be at your funeral to honor your mother with a plaque. From cartoons to caskets. From Power Rangers to fucking strangers. My generation may not get the chance to realize how stupid we are. If we all don’t kill each other by 23, by 31, we’re behind bars. How did we go from trading Lunchable snacks to stealing cars? From the playground to the cemetery.  Playing in a different kind of dirt. I promise there is no Magic School Bus to take you back to the Monkey Bars once you’ve been placed in a hearse.  No time for Barbies once you’ve had babies. You can’t hide H.I.V. once you’ve seeked unprotected sex. This sad excuse for a generation has set the standard for the next. Slow down. There is no  way for us to retrieve our childhood now but just take the time to listen. If these were ours, what will be our children’s transitions?
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Hershey Writes

From Barbies to Babies.

From PS2s to STDs.

From Hide and Seek To H.I.V.

What Happened To Us? Why Did We Move So Fast?

We were barely out of A-cups when girls started showing up pregnant to class.

From Barney to Bullets.

From Gameboys to Guns.

From brand new Teddy Bears to Newborn sons.

Snowballs hitting your back to bullets piercing your lungs.

What song made you stop having fun?

What lyric convinced you at 12 to go get some….for the first time?

From Crayola to Crack.

These girls give birth to their second child before the first can read, write, add or subtract.

What degrees can you earn lying on your back?

I promise Lil Wayne will never be at your funeral to honor your mother with a plaque.

From cartoons to caskets.

From Power Rangers to fucking strangers.

My generation may not get the chance to realize how stupid we are.

If we all don’t kill each other by 23, by 31, we’re behind bars.

How did we go from trading Lunchable snacks to stealing cars?

From the playground to the cemetery. 

Playing in a different kind of dirt.

I promise there is no Magic School Bus to take you back to the Monkey Bars once you’ve been placed in a hearse. 

No time for Barbies once you’ve had babies.

You can’t hide H.I.V. once you’ve seeked unprotected sex.

This sad excuse for a generation has set the standard for the next.

Slow down. There is no  way for us to retrieve our childhood now but just take the time to listen. If these were ours, what will be our children’s transitions?


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