Words & One-liners

		. I was born on a planet almost seventy seven light years from here an idyllic world where children grew up without the threat of nuclear holocaust or global warming no instant messaging systems no black revolutions gay revolutions drug revolutions no woman’s liberation not even the choice of taking or not taking the pill true the seed of all this was there but had nothing to do with my formative years and now I find myself come to this harsh place a kind of space traveler having close encounters with my own children like creatures from different star systems we stare at each other across the void even our words have different stems we are aliens in each others midst but damn it I am the one saddled with the memory of that other place part of a colony stranded on planet earth at the beginning of the twenty first century marooned with no way to go back and no time to go on like a moon being eclipsed my kind will soon be gone and in light of the headlines today the sooner the better +++ .
	.........AFTERWORD — I would guess that this one speaks for itself. Just one comment however — When I see a commercial on TV aimed at the younger set. Wild dancing, gyrating celebrating hordes of young folk having the time of their life in a disco. I turn to the old geezer sitting next to me on the sofa and say: "You know, I would pay a lot of cold hard cash not to have to go to that party!"