peace and love

it wasn't really peace and love.

the sixties.
it's a myth.

the drugs, the music.
the concerts. the revolution
never happened.

it was mostly a mess. the runaways.
the homeless.
the mud. the overdoses.

the disease, the free clinics.
the addicts.

but we sweep all of it away, and pretend
that those years

were some sort of Shangri la.
hardly.

it was an age of assassinations.
LSD.
Nixon.

Vietnam. women's rights. civil rights.
gay rights.
everyone was on the street.

marching with a sign over something.

but it wasn't really peace and love.
it was a crazy time

painted in day glow colors. long hair.
free love, not really.

nothing is free. the sixties
never happened like
you see it in the movies,

or on tv. it's a myth.