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PARADISE DAYS
america,
you and i
were happier
than we knew
of course
i was young
and my darkest secrets
pale as ghosts
in the sweet
warm mayhem
of adolescent
summers
i was washing my old plymouth
in the parents' drive
while they watched TV
in the den --
tornadoes ripping
across the country,
China rising
as though from a long sleep
and our thirty seventh president
disgraced,
driven out of office,
boarding a fast plane
out of town,
his hands oddly raised
in peace or victory
and then dad cooking steaks
on the grill in the shade
and the neighbor saying
"sure smells good over there"
and damn
if your perfect sky
wasn't wide
and blue
as my young eyes
and my heart
skipped across
the fruited plains
and pushed against
your boundaries
uncaring,
seeking its own
manifest destiny,
never guessing
we would come to this
you and i
were happier
than we knew
of course
i was young
and my darkest secrets
pale as ghosts
in the sweet
warm mayhem
of adolescent
summers
i was washing my old plymouth
in the parents' drive
while they watched TV
in the den --
tornadoes ripping
across the country,
China rising
as though from a long sleep
and our thirty seventh president
disgraced,
driven out of office,
boarding a fast plane
out of town,
his hands oddly raised
in peace or victory
and then dad cooking steaks
on the grill in the shade
and the neighbor saying
"sure smells good over there"
and damn
if your perfect sky
wasn't wide
and blue
as my young eyes
and my heart
skipped across
the fruited plains
and pushed against
your boundaries
uncaring,
seeking its own
manifest destiny,
never guessing
we would come to this
Published 7th May 2021
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7th May 2021 1:16pm
Wow ... this is powerful ... contrasting young innocence with mature perspective ... I really loved this ...
7th May 2021 4:25pm
Our country has changed so much these last few years. It's difficult to believe how broken things are. It seems we weathered the storms and tended our wounds more gracefully back in the day, though things tend to look better in retrospect.
Thank you so much, L., for reading and for your comments.
Always appreciated.
Thank you so much, L., for reading and for your comments.
Always appreciated.
7th May 2021 5:10pm
If there was internet back then Tricky Dick might have been blown out faster....
Remember it well that summer of 1974
RepubliCANTS as I sometimes call them make stepping on their dongs an artform...
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Remember it well that summer of 1974
RepubliCANTS as I sometimes call them make stepping on their dongs an artform...
Cool ink
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7th May 2021 5:38pm
"...make stepping on their dongs an artform..."
Ain't that the truth!
Thanks for reading and commenting, my friend.
J.
Ain't that the truth!
Thanks for reading and commenting, my friend.
J.
Anonymous
- Edited 7th May 2021 6:24pm
7th May 2021 6:21pm
I often wonder now, today if Nixon occurred , would the GOP protect him like they (and continue to) do for Trump... and I think, ABSOLUTELY they would. I swear the decency and goodness in people has withered and died. It's apparent, everywhere. Spread like wildfire and almost as awful as covid itself.... I know that's horrible to say, yet unfortunately true, imo. When people refuse to wear masks, because they believe a virus is "a hoax" or that American ballot boxes are actually stuffed with ballots, secretly flown in from a foreign country... (holy shit bonkers) or our very own Capital Building is overrun, damaged and disgraced by insurrectionists who actually kill people.... yeah... it's a valid comparison.
I wish there was some backbone and accountability, but I fear we're just going to have to slog through this... until some form of common sense and decency return.
Sorry to drone on, Jav! Wonderful ink. I wish I was a little bit older, so I could remember this go down in person! I do enjoy a good 'what comes around goes round'... lol
Much love and respect,
🌹
-B
I wish there was some backbone and accountability, but I fear we're just going to have to slog through this... until some form of common sense and decency return.
Sorry to drone on, Jav! Wonderful ink. I wish I was a little bit older, so I could remember this go down in person! I do enjoy a good 'what comes around goes round'... lol
Much love and respect,
🌹
-B
7th May 2021 7:55pm
You're right and it's difficult to understand how the political party that made "liberty" one of it's memes has become such a threat to our America. This voting rights scam in Georgia, Texas and Florida is almost as breathtaking as the fact that Republicans will are still defending Trump and his insane fabrications. I wish he was the delusional idiot I saw for awhile and not the master manipulator he truly is.
