Sunday, January 24, 2021

13,369. SO MID-CENTURY

SO MID-CENTURY
McNamara's Band was on the
killing fields while the soldiers
slept in Cambodia and Johnson's
hordes took the Dominican
Republic. That was about 1964.
Does anyone remember this crud?
Beatniks were hobbled by hippies.
Woman were buying Summer's Eve
and plaiting their eyebrows with
red paste and their hair with Pssst!
Mustangs and Camaros vied for
place. The split-level house was
the newest big thing.
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I went home past the junkyards
thinking. I walked the old greasy
lane that led to the tracks, coming
up Inman along the back tracks.

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