WOODSTOCK MISSED
by Julie
Small town dreams don’t amount to much
You just raise your children for college and such
Satisfaction it seems, comes from making a home
Until something happens to make your mind roam.
In this 年 of 1984, I’m feelin’ old at 34.
A tv special about 1970 and ‘69
Causes memories to flood
Of those turbulent times.
See the dead-eyed soldiers of Vietnam
Silently raging at Uncle Sam.
Draft cards burning on a courthouse square
Old veterans watching with hostile stares.
The Delacroix girl screaming her pain
At Kent State after the bullets rained.
How could those students have been...
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