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WHAT DO THE GROWNUPS KNOW?

My dad used to say
way back then,
back in the 50’s
when I would watch him
each day
simply shaking his head
and wondering why
anyone would listen
to the music I played
on the radio and
on those 45’s and lp’s.
“Elvis and the likes of him,”
he would say,
“they’d never last
if it were up to him”.
And the grownups said,
“They won’t endure,”
“Not Elvis,
not the Beatles,
and most definitely
not Rap.”

And just a few years later
I heard my dad’s words
coming back to me
and out of my own mouth
as the music of the 80’s
blared on the TV
and I shook my head
and said (to myself),
“That music won’t last,
if it’s up to me.”
But what did I know?
I didn’t have a clue,
for it looks to me like
the grownups were
wrong just this one time,
and rap and the rock
and that music that grew
out of an 80’s point of view,
has lasted and endured
until this day,
and not looking like
it’s going to go away.

(c) barbara kausteklis 5-11-11

Written for CPC “Wonderful Wednesdays/
Music of the 80’s.”

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Thanks always for your visits and comments.

~barb~