The Seventies

A Poem by Pete

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. - Thoreau

mood rings and love beads

corduroy and bell bottoms

all that disco breeds

© 2024 Pete

Author's Note

"We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same." - Thoreau

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Added on November 5, 2024
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Author

Pete

Boston, MA

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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..