Boomer Rhymes

Prussian pride got humbled when the Third Reich bumbled. Jap zeroes shot down; Yanks drop atoms on Hiroshima town. Nuclear age begins; nobody knows who wins. Nobody knows how the story ends. We do know how it began: Adam and Eve from Eden ran. Jews declare Israel; Muslims follow Ishmail. Land of the Free at rest; Home of the Brave aced the Test. There was this new thing called TV. . . with Donald and Minnie and Mickey, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone; Ozzie, Harriet and Father Knows Best; a nation victorious now at rest. Leave it to Beaver and Eddie Haskell, following up from the Little Rascals. Edward R Murrow and Cronkite; Huntley and Brinkley in black and white. Then Disney in a World of Color. . . three networks. . . this, that or the other. Nixon and Kennedy in debate, tempting the fickle fingers of Fate. Kennedy shot down in Dallas, splatters blood on Camelot palace. Johnson and Vietnam, draft and napalm. Nixon brought down in Watergate: dirty tricks soiled his Fate. American gold no longer for sale; Now the Fed tells the Tale. Double digit inflation brings Carter’s end; Reagan back in the saddle again. Morning in America theme, with hopes to rekindle the American Dream. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall, while Americans flocked to the Mall. Bird in the hand worth two in the Bush, now with yankee Desert Storm push. But history charges like a Razorback: Bill and Hilary from American outback. Then Gingrich with balanced budget supposed, Contract with America proposed. Along comes the dot.com bubble, foreshadowing digital trouble, although we figured our digits out before that Y2K could spoil our rout. But that 9/11 call was in the cards. World trade center downed in rubble and shards. By ’n by, out of the World Trade Center smoke and rubble, investigations tracked al-qaeda as source of the trouble. Some bin Laden fellow that 9/11 planner, he laid it out in the al qaeda manner. Terrorizing plot from an American-hater. More about that later. Seven years went by . . . Around the corner, Wall Street bulls hyped in frantic trading; prudence and good sense were fading, up up and up with no abating. But when the fevered market was spent, Dow-Jones was down by 53 percent. Meanwhile back at the ranch, out of the tranche, years after 911 smoke and rubble, al-Qaeda was found as the source of trouble. So Obama tracked down Osama. Seal Team Six did the fatal bin Laden fix. Operation Neptune Fear set our Seals’ team in gear; they put an end to our bin Laden fear. Meanwhile back from the Jersey shore, donald stepped down from his escalator door. Somebody got shot on 5th Ave but nobody cared, cuz donald and his fox were now paired. After that came something like a sad bad dream, as MAGA shredded the American dream. Last thing I remember, Doc, I slid into the curve; and that’s when America started to swerve, I think. (blink)

At least that’s the way I remember it; I just hope donnie don’t dismember it. Selah. Make America Good Again, as we remember when. . . Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver.

Now America needs a Constitution retriever. All this happened in one lifetime? Time to hook up the American lifeline. King of Soul