Please stop reading all of those young adult novels Like Looking for Alaska or the Perks of Being a Wallflower There’s more to life than romance and butterflies But you'll never learn if you keep on taking advice from 15 year old guys
Don’t make it seem poetic that you met a boy back in high school And he was so sweet and cool that you wish you were not 22 You’re living in the past, that boy is working at a grocery store While you work on your PhD in Sociology
And everything you’d thought you’d learned Was a misreading of terms And now we’re anchored to illogical thoughts We’ll always be 13 at heart We’ll always be 13 at heart We’ll always be 13 at heart At least until we start reading Hemingway