Sure every generation has its terms
but ours is far the biggest, and our own.
The way we used to do and think affirms
these words – remember feeling we had grown
a bumper crop of weird, that not before
had any age seemed so significant?

We thought we’d change the world, but this is more
the truth: our parents were the ones who went
and started voiding all the wonted rules,
by making bombs and then this crop of us,
by sending women off to jobs and schools
and letting us rid sex of all its fuss.

My age built webs – a gifted child excuse –
today we’re getting what our kids produce.