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Downtown Love
Young admirers in the streets downtown; teenage love.
Temporary love.
Cyber-goth and punk rebels with chains down their backs.
Chains on their pants.
Drag queens, ripped jeans, only sixteen.
Temporary love.
Sit in smoke filled bus stops and park benches.
Hold hands and share half burnt cigarettes.
Temporary love.
Stare at our audience: business people serious and whitewashed. dull.
Welfare people linger. Homeless rejects.
They all smoke more cigarettes.
Play with your nose ring or your lip stud.
How I love your dyed style;
Manic colours greens and pinks against your flat hair.
Temporary love.
Young admirers in the streets downtown.
How we love—with our faces hardened mean.
with our ripped jeans and only sixteen.
Temporary love.
Young admirers in the streets downtown; teenage love.
Temporary love.
Cyber-goth and punk rebels with chains down their backs.
Chains on their pants.
Drag queens, ripped jeans, only sixteen.
Temporary love.
Sit in smoke filled bus stops and park benches.
Hold hands and share half burnt cigarettes.
Temporary love.
Stare at our audience: business people serious and whitewashed. dull.
Welfare people linger. Homeless rejects.
They all smoke more cigarettes.
Play with your nose ring or your lip stud.
How I love your dyed style;
Manic colours greens and pinks against your flat hair.
Temporary love.
Young admirers in the streets downtown.
How we love—with our faces hardened mean.
with our ripped jeans and only sixteen.
Temporary love.
I wrote this poem based on the environment as a teenager I witnessed downtown Regina. Victoria Park is in the heart and middle of the downtown area and was known as a local hang out and hub for many eclectic people in the city. This area is more notably run down, and there are visible minorities throughout this area that seem to thrive inside the central area.
I always somehow wanted to be apart of the groups that formed Downtown. Although I knew drinking, drug use and sex were major factors within these groups, a part of me wanted to know the familiar faces I saw when catching the buses to go home or to school. They were the resilient members of society who questioned and fought for every injustice brought against them. They were the rebels who were my age, younger or older. My generation's punk nation.
A few afternoons away from school, I would be able to hang out in Vic Park with girls who had relationships formed within these groups. I was able to sit in circles with the grungy boys who had piercings and half smoked cigarettes hanging off their lips, and the girls with thick drastic eyeliner and combat boots. They were teenagers. Like me.
I always somehow wanted to be apart of the groups that formed Downtown. Although I knew drinking, drug use and sex were major factors within these groups, a part of me wanted to know the familiar faces I saw when catching the buses to go home or to school. They were the resilient members of society who questioned and fought for every injustice brought against them. They were the rebels who were my age, younger or older. My generation's punk nation.
A few afternoons away from school, I would be able to hang out in Vic Park with girls who had relationships formed within these groups. I was able to sit in circles with the grungy boys who had piercings and half smoked cigarettes hanging off their lips, and the girls with thick drastic eyeliner and combat boots. They were teenagers. Like me.
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