Monday, June 26, 2017

"SOMEWHERE ALONG THE TRAIL..."



"He hath given us speech for endless palaver..."
T.S. Eliot

Somewhere...sometime, along the way---
              we Americans 
     have lost

 Fifteen million WWII vets, the "Greatest
    Generation.."
         ...they have passed

The "Depression Kids" are not far behind

Fibber McGee and Molly, Red Skelton,
      Jack Benny, and Art Linkletter...
           gone from radio

John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory
      Peck, William Holden. Walter 
           Brennan, no more movies...

One Doolittle Raider is left from the
      "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo"
               raid

Missing from the "funnies" are old
       friends of our childhoods---
    Joe Palooka, Tarzan, Nancy,
        Blondie, and The 
                 Katzenjammer Kids...

Oh yes, we can talk...we're talkers
     for sure; 
          "He hath given us speech 
        for endless palaver."
   T.S. Eliot nailed it, years ago.

We're "electronic talkers!"

Oh yes, we can spend money
     if we want to, and borrow
         it if we don't have it...
               the gov't.

Oh yes, in our inane groping for
             SOMETHING
     we are ever coming up with
          new gender variations,
    requiring endless new bathrooms;
        we're apparently not satisfied 
            with plain old:
                  "man and woman."

Oh yes, we have been reminded
     of the "progress we have made!"
          
"What progress?" I ask you.

On our way... to where?

Ah, but we have also lost
     our front porches, where folks
sat on summer nights after
         supper---with the women
still wearing their wet aprons...
          waving at kids as 
     they roller skated and neighbors
               out strolling...

Basic happy things like that

Worse---have Americans lost their
      belief in God?

and their judgment 

and

their perception?
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BY ML
25 JUNE 17

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