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Poems A-Z Hippie

6/7/2010

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Do your own thing was the cry of the year

Sixty nine was the season of pills and of beer

Flowers and free love was the strong rebel yell

Where it would end only time that could tell

A maverick a loaner that no one could bind

A free-loading spirit on a trip of the mind

But in seeking to close the mysterious loop

They all ended up, right back there in a group

The hair and the tales, well they let them grow long

Then pick up a guitar and put it in song

The mind will expand with the right kind of pill

And that Volkswagen bus that is broken down still

They get the last laugh, this peace loving group

Cause they now have our country in a pile of poop

Their bus is a Prius and their hair is cut short

A job in the city of government sort

You still can find them, camped on the lawn

Surrounded by Whitehouse and media fawn

Oh what we would give for them back in San Fran

Back at Haight Ashbury with their bus and their van

So it’s not in the park where the smell is so bad

The long halls of congress…is the hippie’s new pad

David Kettler, 3/31/09 

This poem became instantly one of my favorites! It went together real smoothly and allowed me to pour all my political frustrations into print. I’m a real expert on hippies seeing I was eight years old in sixty nine! Anyway, after I scratched this on a pad at five in the morning, I went to work and all day was anxious to come home and put it in print because I knew it was pretty good. It’s kind of funny but I could not of told you two or three lines at work by memory. It’s like I enjoy it for the first time when I pull out my notebook and read what I wrote just twelve hours before.    



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