I Remember Youth Training

very well and not just for how naive I had to be,
for me to accept it without any sign of resistance.
But more for how it was adults controlling us
whilst investing in yesteryear's skills and hierarchies
the better for the adults to kid us we were grown ups
and get the last possible use out of what they knew
would soon be obsolete, whilst leaving the young
unprepared for any real future that would beset them.