“I have become comfortably numb”
- Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb" from “The Wall”


Once upon a time our magical generation had at once become so incrediblyComfortably Numb
as we caught a fleeting glimpse
out of the corner of our eyes
induced by flower power and idolized notions
a generation ad-mired and admonsihed
our hopes helped along by magical potions
regaled we swooned adrift
peaceful in plaintiff platitudes

We begged the "Man" to Give Peace a Chance
where everybody was talking about
regulation, integrations, meditations
United Nations, congratulations
we so appealed for that peaceful plane

We felt the Fab Four’s' naïve notion
of “All You Need Is Love”
they were saying nothing we could do
that’ was not already done
but we thought it was easy

So we flew “Over the Hills and Far Away”
as mellow was the man
who knew what he was missing
many, many men, then
could not see that open road
if all men would just share the load

Now look at what now we have become
for what we once were beaten
as we fell into Wall Street's call
where families have lost the battle
since they no longer matter
a battle that can’'t be won

Our world is now a boomer's wasteland
which our generation has undone
so I waste away in these waning days
knowing now the only song
our generation knows will be sung:
“Happiness...
Is a Warm...
Gun”

05/09/2007

Posted on 05/09/2007
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