This is from the summer 1994 Kyosaku, a publication by Mike Janssen. _Alternative Girl_ by Mike Janssen: Kurt Cobain is dead, so as his body a-molders, Alternative Girl, can I cry on your shoulder? I'll wipe salty tears with your flannel shirt and hold onto your hand to ease unending hurt I saw you at a show just the other night and you were lookin' alternative all right Whether dancin' around or just standing there with your overalls and Docs and the dye in your hair You looked so much like all of your friends who try to be different by following trends You were smoking your Camels and bobbing your head I thought you were cool for making yourself dead There's nothing like a girl who reeks of rank smoke like the kind in my heart full of coals that you stoke Later I saw you with some punk pals at Denny's like a flower with earrings in a field of many Acting like a rebel in the rebel crowd driving 'round in your van with the radio loud So come with me to a coffee house joint We'll drink lots of coffee and say, "What's the point?" We'll talk about Beats and wish we lived then so we could have been posers who got into Zen We'll curse being labelled as "Generation X" while we watch MTV and have lots of sex We'll go to Lollapalooza and dress really punk and get covered with mud and buy overpriced junk and wear the t-shirt to school just to show that we went and sneer at the teachers whom we often resent 'cause they lived in the sixties when the youth had a cause whereas all we can protest are the bountiful flaws of an upper-class life with our parents the squares and the trouble with us is that nobody cares We've got nothing to say and we think even less which naturally causes us endless distress. So then we'll start our own music 'zine and write lots of reviews and be slightly obscene with an old worn-out typewriter and a bottle of glue and a friend at the copy show who's alternative, too Then we'll pass it around in our circle of friends who act sad and depressed and sit on their rear ends as they bitch about life in the suburbs with Dad and they couldn't get a car so now they're so sad O the Angst! the despair and the unfounded woe! O the things we won't do and the places we won't go! It's ok to be lazy! it's ok to be glum! 'cause we'll live in a world full of cloves and of rum So let's wear lots of black and buy numerous books that we'll carry around to draw numerous looks from our peers at the clubs who buy Sartre and Camus but can never quite read it 'cause they're always so blue And we'll stay up all night and fall asleep on the floor Alternative Girl, who could ever want more?