Dreaming of a Different Birthdate

art deco was considered ultra-modern in the nineteen twenties fashions were outrageously risqué, women were slim, flappers wore fringe I would have been a flapper if I had been born then, after I escaped the cave of my parents and their rules If I had known about Berkeley, I would have gone there in the seventies If I had known about Woodstock, I would have stayed away though. I detest crowds. But art deco, that is something I can embrace. In some ways I wish I had been born in the twenties, then I would have gone to the otherworld before my mother who was not born until 1931. Another reason to be a flapper.