A GENERATION
The mummied death
mask of the seventies
pickled in nostalgia
for Gen X
spit roast betwixt
Boomers and Millennials.
We were naive and born
too young for sex
though Love’s summer
and patchouli came
late to Aotearoa.
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher
was for us the
seventies: cocaine,
Paul Simon and Star
Wars.
No ambition
for houses made of
promises and air.
Cold War, Think Big,
Stagflation, and Oil Crisis –
we feral latchkey
kids were unaware:
Orphic Cobain and the
internet were the devices
our blazoned tropes.
our blazoned tropes.
The nineties were the
seventies redux,
without the hope.
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