Rockville High School: To My Not So Favorite 16 Year Old High School Boy
For Billy Collins
Dear 16 year old boys, William Hamilton knew 13 languages by the time he was a young teen you have gone in the opposite direction changing your native tongue so it will fit into the 140 character limit of your latest tweet hashtaging your actions you will never know how to apply paint to a canvas the way Picasso did at the age of 16 when his painting won a gold medal in Malaga your achievements are measured in your latest high score of Flappy Bird or whatever other mindless game is the “next big thing” while at the age of 15 Robert Fischer’s strategic moves won him The World Chess Championship but all of these figures are either dead or irrelevant to you so 16 year old boy please get off your phone or your Xbox and change history just a little by at least taking a shower or putting on some deodorant at least once Love, the 16 year old girl who used her IPhone in this poem to sound smart.