Do you remember where you
were when they invented
the electric guitar?
I don`t.

I was certainly alive,
a mind-swelling child
with banged-up knees
and tangled yellow hair,
my mother`s daily despair.

The first time I heard
any electric guitars,
I was standing in
a green-grass park
with a few other
ungainly adolescents
who desperately wanted
to conform somehow,
who desperately wanted
to find out how.

And then we heard
these electric guitars
shaking the bright summer air.
I think it was some of those
southern boys who had been
wandering almost everywhere,
playing in a small pavilion
down near the lake over there.

Just then some woman behind me
whispered, "Excuse me, dear,
but your slip is showing and I
think its time you cut your hair."

But those electric guitars
were making waves in the air,
so I laughed and danced away
and said,"Well, excuse me but I
just don`t care."

02/05/2016