Nineteen Sixty-Eight
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How it all started. Do you think it will last?
Nineteen sixty-nine
By Franklin Price
5/22/2019
The year was nineteen sixty-nine
A year for change and to adjust
Had just returned from Viet Nam
Was alone, without much trust
Married when I went away
January sixty-eight
Received “Dear John” on April Fool
It's a long remembered date
Went to war to do my duty
My wife could not do without
By the time she wrote the letter
Was not alone, there was no doubt
By the time that I returned
Divorce was said and done
Don't know what happened to her
She no longer was the one
The Air Force way was not for me
And we went our separate ways
I got a job at KSC
For the Apollo moon man days
Joined the team that POTUS Kennedy
Said would put man on the moon
Before the sixty's decade's over
Sixty-nine was none too soon
We worked hard and we played hard
Was much pressure from the start
To find relief from tensions,
Clubs and bars were all a part
Every week-end was a party
Many dance clubs were around
We traveled home from bar to bar
Drunken driving did abound
It was the sexy sixties
Braless tops and thigh high skirts
Men's pants were tight bell bottomed
To show their package to the flirts
It didn't take much effort
There was lots of ass to see
Many looking for a hook-up
Some a one night stand for me
Didn't ask if they were married
Some probably were and some were not
The sex was all that mattered
And satisfaction that we got
Then one day, a married friend,
Wanted a girl that I had done
If she let you, she will let me
Now I can be the one
One thing led to another
And he moved out on his wife
And their new born child, a daughter
Thought he could have a better life
Took his mistress everywhere with him
Even to our softball games
His wife came to one and met her
Kicked her ass and called her names
I knew he wasn't good for her
She was depressed and was distraught
I put my arm around her
Her marriage then was all but fraught
I drove her home that evening
Was concerned then for her life
Before the year was over
She was divorced and was my wife
That was fifty years ago
When man went to the moon
I'm still happy with the choices made
Our anniversary, golden, soon.
(November 21, 2019)
Copyright © Franklin Price | Year Posted 2019
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