It's a fear thing, I suppose, Pat, tinged with regret, such lambasting of the young. Not all feel this way of course. As Bob Dylan said/sang, 'I'd change places with any of them in a minute if I could.'(Highlands, I think, from Time out of Mind)
Oldish Bill
> On 5 Mar 2014, at 10:34 pm, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Sad, sardonic, very fine Patrick. What they thought of me, what I think of
> them. It's a wonder we have children at all, given the disconnects.
>
> Ken
>
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> Behalf Of Patrick McManus
> Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:50 AM
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> Subject: pat snap 616 _¬-*_¬-*_¬-*Wednesday, 05 March 2014
>
> Written in response to a sad old poem at a meeting
>
> SOME THINGS
>
> some things
> never change
> all through history
> the sad old have
> flocked together
>
> flocked together
> to bemoan the young
> complain about change
> they piteously bleat
> about the young
> young’s hair
> young’s disrespect
> young’s manners
> young’s going down hill
> young’s taste in music
> young’s disobedience
> young’s garbled speech
> young’s everything
> and
> the old bemoan about
> a ‘lack of loveliness’
> through their old dusty
> rose tinted glasses
> frosted with age
> go on and on about
> the fabled ‘good ol’days’
> rattle their zimmers
> sad old killjoys
> heading towards
> the knacker’s yard
> and
> they have
> forgotten
> that long ago
> their parents
> flocked together
> to bemoan the young
> its all gone on –
> a litany a dirge
> since the caves
> throughout history
> some-one please
> put them out
> of their misery
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r457
> inspired by and dedicated to merton poets I was told that I could not write
> 'to bemoan the young' I thought 'about'
> was implied??? P of no grammaries
> Wednesday, 05 March 2014
>
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