boys staying boys

before the words leave your

mouth

you know

that you'll sound like an old

man saying them,

but you say them just the same.

it's what old men do.

they don't give a damn.

you say that the young boys

are staying boys.

never becoming men.

they don't want to work,

get their hands dirty.

they don't want the aches

and pains,

the inglorious existence

of blue collar.

of building a business

off minimum wage.

they want the money, sure,

who doesn't?

but they want the house too,

the car,

the clothes, the girl.

they want it all, but they

don't want to work for it.

the first time a man got

a manicure it was the beginning

of the end of the world.