Fucked up / peers

I'm just becoming aware
At this late stage in life
Of the ghastly people that were my peers
When I was growing up

All the greed and hatred
and the insincere pettiness
The petty thieving
the lies
the lousy little ways

My ideals were corrupted
by people who thought
that fucking someone else over
was somehow admirable

And fools were people
who actually cared

My friend was a card shark
whose idea of fun
in a summer job
was to crash fork life trucks
through new TVs
in the warehouse he worked at

Later he became a pop star
albeit briefly
and fucked young girls
and generally abused people
in the way that fourth rate
two chord pop stars
of the seventies did

Another friend
was a murderer
He came out of prison
and used sarcasm
and humiliation
the way that those kinds of people do

He became a third rate soap star
and hit the headlines later
for jacking off on webcams

These people were my heroes
and my peers
when I was growing up

And is it any wonder
that I've been a bit
fucked up?