From Blue Licks To The Perfume River
The problem with our Generation
is that we have had no menacing,
all-engrossing War,
where everyone knows someone out
on the front-lines,
where win or lose
directly affects your life,
no looming conscription,
with daily lotteries and
midnight flees to Canada,
no dark period or national strife
where a loaf of bread cost more than
your non-existent paycheck,
nothing to purify us,
cleanse us of our
own selfish concerns,
and teach us a true lesson about life.
We have gone on far too long,
sucked in by the flickering tube,
by talk in text instead of
real human contact,
and allowed to ramble on about
the trivial, while those in power
shield us from the
growing tears
in our national fabric, and the
frightening reality of daily life,
turmoil, and poverty
in foreign (or neighboring) lands.
So, while it must seem
in some ways
perverse (and I agree),
I am somehow jealous of previous
Generations of Americans
for the hurdles they had to overcome
and the lessons they learned individually
Copyright Oren Peleg 2009
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