You have underage adults, you have
People believing in things untrue.
One day they’ll ask to stand
Upside down for a while,
Saying it is roll and scissors,
Saying it is pen against stone
(all we had in our hearts
was queen and country).
They’ll have all unsuspect’d
Sons, have all passports empty.
Fire happens when fuel meets
Its match, people, indifference.
One will be kneeling in the bush,
One chasing out fading sirens.
Underage will grow into weed,
Republic into sorrow, past into roads.
People coming after, remember
Us, remember how we were.
You have underage adults, you have
People believing the world untrue.
Image credit : Marcello Mastroianni and director Federico Fellini on the set of La città delle donne, 1980
Frédéric Benqué 