March 31, 2012

• In Those Types of Times

  To my children,

  "your parents experienced the fear of possible world war with nuclear warheads during the Cuban missile crisis, their favorite president was assassinated, then his brother too, as well as Martin Luther King. They saw their friends and their brothers killed in Vietnam daily on the nightly news. They saw college students killed by their own National Guard, and civil rights protesters attacked with fire hoses and worse. The 60's, art and music were people's way of lifting their spirits in those types of times. "

  We hid under school desks
  slept to burning visions
  Watched as dogs attacked
  and hoses washed away the denied
  But for every bad there was a good
  a song, a film, a painted picture
  For every bad man there was a good
  a speech, a quote, an epitaph
  Old men were called the greatest generation
  We lived helpless through their rule
  They called us Boomers
  We wrote hopeful songs
  and made the realistic movies
  They call us Boomers,
  Now, although old, is our time.

  D.S.S.

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