In the analogue world the bedroom
was a place for parents to feel safe
leaving youths to play their music
at a distance from the parents' ears
where the benefits were mutual,
whilst what teenagers might have thought
about the sex that they should not be
thinking about, much less having,
could be left unasked about;
to ask might make the family
seem like the blind leading the blighted.
Nowadays teenagers have the world,
at least the world of the internet,
at their beck and call in their rooms
where room service is world service.
There they redesign how the world
blames youths for being uniformed,
whilst it tries to make sure
they know too little to be dangerous.
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