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Category Archives: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)

Boomercrits: a poem

23 Thursday May 2013

Posted by essaybee2012 in altered consciousness, Elle, GQ, Hair (Gerome Ragni-James Rado-Galt MacDermott), I Want A New Drug (Huey Lewis and The News), IED (Improvised Explosive Device), In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly), Janus, Mannequinland, Masters Of War (Bob Dylan), Rage Against The Machine, See Me Feel Me (The Who), The Division Bell (Pink Floyd 1994), Welcome To The Machine (Pink Floyd), What's The Buzz (Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice), White Room (Cream)

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From bell bottoms to suits—

and “The Division Bell.”

From flowers and IED’s,

(IED’s?)—

to rage (within) the machine.

“Welcome to the Machine.”

~

From peace and love—

to “all you masters of war.”

From altered states—

to “I Want a New Drug.”

From “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”

(in a Garden of Eden?)—

to “in the white room with black curtains…”

all “gold pavements.”

~

“What’s the buzz?  Tell me what’s a-happening…

Why are you obsessed with fighting

times and fates you can’t defy?”

From “Hair, flow it, show it,

long as God can grow it, my hair”—

to GQ and Elle Manniquinland.

~

Two-compassed Janus’s—

Two faces for each coin.

Who can I turn to?”

“See Me, Feel Me, Touch me, Heal me.”

by S.A. Bort

[This poem was inspired by a writing by Anneliese M. G.]

photo:  From left: Greg Orme, Kelli Allman, President Obama and Megan Hughes at Allman’s parents’ house in Honolulu. / Kelli Allman/Contact Press Images

Hair the Musical -1968

Hair the Musical -1968

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