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This was composed and designed for the CPC Magic Monday poetry challenge.  Mary Margaret and JT want writes about the 1970s.

Here’s the text in case it’s hard to read:

Going back in time to the Seventies?
Can I go too? Take me back, please!
Back to the days of mainstream weird
Afro hair and Lennon’s beard.

Pastel clothes, Puerto Rican chic
leisure suited longhaired freak.
“Look at me, I’m with it, man!
Nonconformist deadhead fan.

Bicentennial patriot;
Billy Beer fought Jim’s brain rot.
Disco kings and queens enthroned
Bright bug vans shook while lovers moaned.

Cheap cassette tapes stockpiled tunes.
Nam war ended none too soon.
Nixon met his Watergate.
For Chevy’s gang we stayed up late.

We grew, matured, endured, enjoyed.
One moment down, then spirits buoyed.
Change never seemed quite so pronouced,
until the early Eighties pounced.

Now all that seems so long ago.
Just traces now, memories’ glow.
All those years, each one, all ten.
That time will never come again.