I have heard that adolescence is a recent invention,
A by-product of progress, one of Capitalism’s
Suspended transitions between one state and another,
Like refugee camps, internment camps, like the Fields
Of Concentration in a campus catalogue. Summer
Camps for teenagers. When I was quite young
My miscomprehension was that “Concentration Camp”
Meant where the scorned were admonished to concentrate,
Humiliated: forbidden to let the mind wander away.