fuck you, tom brokaw

the prominent
evening news anchor
recently declared that
the generation of
americans that
fought in world war 2
are america's greatest
generation.

it was exactly this kind
of myopic
thinking that
demoralized every
vietnam vet
30 years ago

and which now causes
the young people of
my generation
to just throw up
their hands and say

why bother?

-published in Chiron Review