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For Once, Then Nothing: The 90s Were A Remake Of A 70s TV Show Nobody Remembers Watching
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George and Gordon (not
Lord Byron) went
dashing thru the snow from
a Hot[e]l in Baltimore, faithful
neither to
the plot nor historical
Record, Presidential
debates fueled &
fanned Nostalgia but failed to resurrect
JFK (Reagan came closest) , Liberties taken w/ the
Facts, sixty-minute-
man turned who-‘da’-man turned where
have all the cowboys gone? Paranoid
President who
Warned of terror-turned-
compassionate Prez- fidelitically challenged- who gifted but
never read
his Whitman, Free
Speech cast as primitive in
Mandarin sub-
titles, Reality to 'too much information' &
trim in the Oval Office, the orgy
raged on- for some- in the
TV lounge and every alphabet channel, as
Arafat stood on the
tarmac,
waiting,
.
In the 70s
-Helen Reddy deified herself @ the Grammys;
In the 90s
-Dishwalla ('... 'cause I'd really like to meet Her...') was deemed “profound” by the Programmer.
In the 70s
-Uriah Heap sang of Easy Living; in the
90s
-chest-thumping hip-hop & grrrl blather extended That Me Decade into
“and I” decay.
In the 70s
-my 6th grade teacher parroted, “behind every good man is a great woman
(tho never explained her 1st husband): ”
In the 90s
-my supervisor thanked me for stepping between herself and a disgruntled
consumer.
From streaking to no-
peeking, Reality, locked in the
Back & only transcripts allowed up
Front, nineteen Arabs
Parading thru the
Yard & there went the
Neighborhood, thru the un-
Locked house &
Tolerance redirected Prejudice into
the Lockbox, TMI fitting
everything but
the lavender-fingered dusk &
'w/ this (cinnamon) ring I thee wed, ' & the Messianic
Filter cast in
clay & dunked (but not drowned) in
urine, blurred,
Blottered
out, one Truth, for
all, for
once, then
Nothing.
Cretan Maineiac
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Sulaiman Mohd Yusof (4/5/2008 10:13:00 AM)
fascinating piece......reminded me of uriah heep song 'she came to me one mornin'.............one lonely sunday mornin' '............... |
T McH almost Sloblock (3/10/2008 9:51:00 AM)
What Ivan said. And also, as so often, you absolutely do a bang-on killer hit-the-spot with your last three lines. t x |
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