A long, long time ago…
Words meant something
promises meant more
you’d turn the sprinkler on and there was an instant neighborhood party
add hand churned ice cream and the old people joined in
but that was a long, long time ago
now we rush around to the loud din of the money factor
churning out paper money faster than we can replace it
and no one from the neighborhood joins in because
water is more valuable than money
the ice cream is synthetic
and the man who delivers ice cream
knows more about the deal with Meth
it doesn’t matter the ice cream is synthetic
as are the promises that important men make
in the shadow of those from
a long, long time ago…
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Excellent piece, Leslie!
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Thanks Nina it was supposed to be a prequel for PEN …
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Always have enjoyed that song and what it represented…you’ve presented some of the things lost with ‘progress’.
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Where did long, long ago go, and where do we go to find it, and how do we get it back?
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