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BACK IN THE FIFTIES AGAINWho am I to change your mind? But I am back in the fifties again A far gentler time If you were gay You were happy Aspirin was the drug of choice Do wop--you could understand the voice The Drive in was the place to be That's where we met you and me Drive by shootings--guns were for hunting Drive by---in a "57" Chevy Steroids, the average lineman 165 Pounds A forty five disc, Did you enjoy those sounds A black boy--he might be brown I cried the day my friend Eddie died drowning I didn't know he was a brother a friend of mine Had I been there I would have given my life There were school fights--strip to the waist with fists Those that used dope--that's what they were dopers There's a reason they call it dope When the country called as Americans we went Sure the dopers got out their minds bent It would nice to be back in the fifties again But there was the seventies a time when---? Someday I hope the kids today turn the world around Join their hands together in love give peace a chance Old man like me I remember the fifties the last dance Poetry Ad-Free Upgrades Vote for this poem
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