I Wish I Could Write

i wish i could write a poem about

my years of enduring poverty

i slept on the street

i ate from the trash

i wish i could write about

getting slapped in the face

by a drunk father

and running away to the big city

and getting into fuck knows what

i wish i could write about flunking out of

school or making some boys drool

or being just too cool

i wish i could write about how it feels

to be high or on meth

substance alcohol sex

i wish i could write about my raging sexual fantasies

and put them up on the walls of my prep school

screaming to prudes that its all gonna be fine

wake up your life, you don't know whats right

all this teenage shit,

its supposed to happen

so don't try to control you life too much now

you have adulthood for that.