exiles from America’s Eden…

unwanted pilgrims in an unholy land…

the indigent remainder

of the decades that spawned

hippies, disco, and Reagan

     but

we didn’t get Haight—just felt some hate…

no Ashbury—just ashes, from burned hopes and blazing joints…

disco blows, we’ll take the punk, thanks

     give us the Pistols, the Clash, Black Flag and Hank

and The Gipper? who gave a fuck

     about an actor who acted as president

          and set a bad precedent?

we few, we unhappy few….

73 million unimpressed and under duress…

the scions of latch keys...

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