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Three Generations in the Student Commons
I. Berets, Coffee, and Cigarette Smoke
Much merriment and argument, and songs
Of love or revolution sung around
An old piano or a new guitar,
With poetic verses falling like leaves
II. Ball Caps, Diet Sodas, and Purity of Thought
All turn and tune to a cinder-block wall
Upholding the Orwellian telescreen
Cartoons and Vanna White, and then at noon
With Gilligan, the Skipper too, still lost
III. Pink Hair, Bottled Water, and Fear
No merriment, no argument, only silence
As paling shadows, unaware of each other
Bow down, like Eve before that Eden-tree,
And worship the little boxes in their hands
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