Caren Krutsinger Poet Rhyme

1974 Green Gremlins

Green Gremlins were all the rage in nineteen seventy-four.
I am not talking about creepy fat-headed full bellied tiny beings.
I am talking about cheap cars with a V-8 and four on the floor.
Everyone had one, so common, most of us were tee-heeing.

Painted a variety of colors, and riding in them made you kind of sore.
We wore hip hugger bell-bottoms and had a hippie-like look.
This was in ’74, and believe it or not, this is no folk lore.
If you do not believe me, just look up a Gremlin in a picture book.

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L Milton Hankins May 18, 2022 at 2:41 PM Ah, how I remember that little monster! By the time Jeff describes, I was in the United States Air Force, and they sorely frowned on those fashions! Caren Krutsinger May 19, 2022 at 3:47 AM I love it that you were frowning on the fashions I still love the most. I get it though. My oldest daughter was a captain in the Air Force.

Kim Rodrigues May 18, 2022 at 1:13 PM Vroom…vroom! Peace! Caren Krutsinger May 18, 2022 at 1:20 PM Thank you Kim. I would always rather have a V-8

Rico Leffanta May 18, 2022 at 11:45 AM The Gremlin certainly enhanced the USA's reputation for manufacturing murderous vehicles . . . .Aloha! Caren Krutsinger May 18, 2022 at 1:20 PM Thank you Rico

Poet Tellaferro May 18, 2022 at 11:29 AM my wife had one, but it was yellow, lol Caren Krutsinger May 18, 2022 at 1:20 PM Yellow Gremlins were really common!

Jeff Kyser May 18, 2022 at 3:45 AM I’m 6’6” and in ‘76 or thereabouts, in high school, I wore 4” platform shoes and bell bottoms to the floor and shiny polyester disco shirts. Needless to say all the photos (and all the photographers) are buried… lol, good memory! Caren Krutsinger May 18, 2022 at 10:53 AM I remember and I smile