[net.poems] Nothing New

grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (05/16/84)

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			NOTHING NEW

		"Puke barf! Bletch!"
		Am I supposed to be shocked?
		I'm bored.

		Kerouac tried to shock us
		but I was bored.

		"Bip bob! bonk!"
		The Beatniks had the questions
		All the right questions
		Why is the world like this?
		But they didn't have the answers.

		Leary tried to shock us
		but I was bored.

		"Turn on, Tune in, Drop out!"
		The hippies had all the right questions
		All the right questions
		Why isn't there more love?
		But they're all dead now, save a few
		Who found the Answers

		You try to shock us.
		short hair, long hair, blue hair.
		You're shouting at unfair socity,
		but you're babies with nothing to say
		And I'm bored -- go away!

		You have all the right questions,
		All the right questions,
		but the answers are hard
		Don't you want them?

		Don't go shouting, come asking.
		There are answers.


					The opinions implied above
					are my own.

							-Glenn