YOUTH OF AMERICA sex now is not the sex it was in my time sex was held like a day-late event some of the people who might not have been there were able to attend others who wanted to come couldn't there was a shore with only a slim strip of sand a wider belt of green leading up to a stone platform where the cows were tethered the clothes we wore didn't flatter us and what we said was frankly stupid sex was a boat tied up at the dock of sanity there was a picnic lunch in it but the picnic had been cancelled days before and the lunch was no good sex had an old dog I remember this clearly an old dog who could pick up pennies with his teeth we liked that part especially tossing pennies in front of that old dog the sex of other people was different but complementary like two halves of a zipper we always said in those days we always had sex instead of a haircut because the barber was lovely there we were in front of the TV this was early TV mind you and sex walked into the room sat down at the piano and began banging out some damn boogie woogie thing we had to ask it to shut up the TV was on where was I oh yes youth of America you don't know real sex sex as it was before you were born er maybe as it was that caused you to be born anyway sex was sex was sex was sex was sex so if you think you don't have to be grateful to me or anybody like me just remember gas was cheap then we went for a drive wound up stopping someplace for a hamburger so I forgot all about you am I not allowed to forget