Baby Boomers (2 Poems) 2015 Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Baby Boomers

Baby Boomers, Mods and rockers
Space hoppers, Chart toppers
Condoms carried, slip-ups, married
Doc Marten’s boots, White jump suits
Tower blocks, Soho shops
Mini dress, Beehives impress
Beatles’ discs, hedonists
Twiggy, gaunt: Mary Quant
Ring pull can, Space age man
Sliced bread, Potato head
Yoko’s bed, Vietnam’s dead
Andy Warhol, Georgy girl
Poor Cow, Avengers now
Flower Power, Zero hour
Chubby Checker, tape recorder
Mick Jagger, hippy swagger

Bald comb overs, thick pullovers
Veins in knots, causing clots
Making wills, Zimmers, spills
Bingo wings, forgetting things
Pills and potions, wrinkle lotions
Teeth in glass, heart bypass
Comfort shoes, bunion blues
Prostrate woes, horn-nailed toes
Rools of fat, arhes, flat
Flower Power gone, Future, wan


The Liverpool Resurgence Statue

When Cynthia dated John Lennon
They met under the nude statue’s dick
When it rained, dripping down from his dangle
The water dropped down double quick

Here lovers have met down the decades
Window cleaners hang pails from the prick
Then it’s off to ‘The Rat and the Parrot’
To cheer, with a swallow, their ‘click’