Grown Ups Ruin Everything

  
                Grown Ups Ruin Everything

       Listen:
       Is there something known as "rightful death",
       A legally sound denial of breath?
       Who cares if it's "leaped" or "leapt"?
       Can a competent person be called "ept"?
      
       Grown ups
       Ruin
       Everything!
      
       They made cartoons cynical and joyless.
       They made rock & roll "adult contemporary".
       They took the rough edges out of jazz
       (Smooooooth move, market analysts!)
       They made televised card games.
       They made famous people stupid
       And stupid people famous.
       
        Enough of adulthood,
        Or what passes for it. 

    The above represents a rather prosaic and philosophical foray into poetry, an approach that can be arresting and innovative as well as tedious and preachy. It's probably best to employ such an angle occasionally rather than making it one's regular MO. But hey, it's your writing.