BEATNIK: A Poetry Collection

we miss you

I hear tell Charles Manson

was the one to kill the

hippie generation.

the one loose ember

who flew out and set

the flower children ablaze.

it was the beginning of

the end for them, that

beautiful cluster of youths

who believed their energy

would never die.

and as more of them

grew nomadic who

could help but fear

the few drifters amongst

them who craved blood.

who could blame the

prey of the wolves as

they fell back behind

their microphones and

in their armchairs,

making demons out

of purists and sinners

out of the unrealized?

but that was a very

long time ago now,

and I don't think

we'll be going back.