a brief moment in time

it was a different era.

Kennedy

and Khruschev.

big fin cars,

chubby checker and the twist.

the nuclear

family.

the bomb.

the fall out shelter.

kids

playing in the street.

we were

not yet

on the moon, but

heading there.

it was before

long hair

and Haight Ashbury,

before

Woodstock,

LSD.

it was surf city,

and California

Girls.

it was

before the war

was endless dying,

before

Dallas.

it was before

the bloom was off the rose.

it was a different time.