grown youth

Buck Downs

the real kids
aren’t doing
hardcore bands
anymore —

a little
too music‐
in‐the‐schools,
truth be told —

starting your
own business
is what they
do these days —
business plans,
product plans,
P&Ls —

working for
social change
one quarter
at a time —

build a house
raise a kid
retire rich
at 40 —
that’s hardcore.

Buck Downs’s most recent collection of poems is Tachycardia (Edge).

Ladowich Magazine is available in the Apple Newsstand — https://t.co/bhbBwDr0F9 — offering just enough poetry and one longread a month. The poem published here appears in issue two.

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