A poem for make believe ~~ Paper Moons

 Paper Moons 

 

Now again have Paper Moons and

Cardboard Seas and Painted Rainbows

College girls with yellow dogs, most 

Bare foot, roller skates.  Cutoffs

Fellows with white VWs

Beetles with their folding cloth roofs  

Elvis and next come the Beetles,

Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee

Once again protests made legal

A fight for right with some lives lost

Kent State, John Lennon, your hero?

Against tyranny, war.  Shalom

 

Like "Back Then" now was gone, never

Would be the same. Super Seniors

Are stepping up to take their place

With Paper Moons, Painted Rainbows  

Gone forever those Paper Moons?

Who will step up, make us believe? 

Janis Joplin / Me And Bobby Mcgee [Live] 1970 - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iX-EcRKXJw
 

Working Class Hero - John Lennon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU&index=1&list=RDnjG7p6CSbCU
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 - "Back When" for me was working as an Aerospace Engineer (no degree then) at NASA Houston Space Center and working for College Degrees, mostly at night.  I did have a 1962 BW Bug with a folding top sunroof which took me where I needed to go.  It would be replaced by a 1969 Ford Thunderbird and a 1971 Hondo Motorcycle. These vehicles were all used as were all my other vehicles except two, the last in 1967. 

My hair was collar length and I smoked, mostly a pipe.  There really was a long haired barefoot cutoff wearing young lady who sat beside me in Differential Equations class. She made her "A" and I made my "C". (Car list--scroll down just before the red Ford Pickup)("Back Then" girls who were my friends list)(Our wedding picture)

 - Photo and Poem Copyright © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 - I'm linked with Fireblossom, aka Shay, at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Fireblossom Friday: It's Only A Paper Moon,  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/06/fireblossom-friday-its-only-paper-moon.html

Fireblossom's instructions were in part, "Write something that makes us believe in something that isn't real (i.e. a Paper Moon that isn't real anymore?) ... Please make it a NEW poem or flash fiction."