The Ephramite

A LAMPOON OF YOUTH URBANISM






A lampoon of youth urbanism




It’s neither once nor twice that many humans have the indispensable urge to be remarkable before others, despite the methods they have to adopt to attain this state. A state that nourishes one with self-gratification and satisfaction. The bone of contention is borne out of how many of them decide to attain this splendour.

Basing on old told yarns and chronicles of parents growing up, I picked one rather interesting aspect of gallantry as possessed by some of the current 'grown-ups' ,as teenagers about two or three generations ago: The boys used to let their handkerchiefs hang from their pockets especially in public places so that notice is taken of them, clad in buggy clothes and espousing a colonial gait to betray a practiced grace …. The lasses on the other hand, like today, made a point in clairvoyant saunter and twisting in the decently long gear fashioned in a pioneered Elizabethan manner. The hair was usually neatly combed with hot broken pot pieces and oiled so that it glistened in the rising and setting sun and all that she passed by would silently acclaim by turning to behold the passing ‘breeze’ one more time… how decent at the time.

As times change however, the alteration has been for the worst, or should I say, revolutionary in ways that the girls of the passing generation, and the evolving one dress to leave nothing to the imagination… the minis, leggings… name it. The lads adopt smoking, bouncing like fully inflated plastic balls and they want to be dressed in a gangster version, and the language is dominated by slang, gestures and an accent that our parents only need serious tutoring to fathom what is being communicated by their off springs. This analogy however does not cast a microcosm of society. There are exceptions to it. The decent, well bred, learned, ambitious and self-conscious.(need I say like me?? That’s for you to decide)

This only serves to justify the philosophy that the parents give birth to the body and not the brains, and that one has to do their own growing no matter how tall their father is or was.… of course this applies to a few, but the vast majority of well-bred youths seem to boast an estimable level of decency, at least for this century.

Funny that I am rather indifferent to the cries of parents that, ‘children are not as they used to be in our time’ and the youth thought that their parents are ‘old fashioned’ or ‘colloquial’. So, my question is borne from that conflict: what is the best way to be remarkable with little injury to social decorum and disposition suicide????

OMODING GEORGE EPHRAIM…