Quitting

We are a generation of
fools.
We quit eating,
quit caring,
quit feeling.
We quit trying
because effort gives us headaches,
and quit planning
because we don't have futures anyway.
So we started smoking
and we started drinking
and we started shooting up
to cement what we already knew:
we're not going anywhere.
So when you sit with a cigarette
and a cup of coffee
and wonder how the hell
you ended up here,
remember it was
your own
choice.