What a Year, 1962
(1-9-6-2 Poem)




I
was just fourteen years old and in school
in nineteen sixty two.
High school.

The
president was John F Kennedy.
Camelot was full swing.
Naive!

Crews
toured White House with TV cameras,
as Jackie Kennedy
smiled on.

Jets
were flying overhead, sonic booms,
nuclear war scare,
cold war.

A
crisis had occurred in local sphere,
when Cuba got Russian
missiles.

Kids
were well trained to deal with the air raids,
ducking under desks
in drills.

But
normal life continued anyway
with hippies and flower
power

Pot
was the choice of the counter-culture,
free-love and Rock & Roll
long hair.

Launched
John Glenn into orbit around Earth
as US enters the
space race.

Jack
Parr hands over the Tonight Show to
comedian Johnny
Carson.

Two
Walendas die when their pyramid
of seven-man high-wire
act falls.

Rights
enforced as James Meredith attends
college with escort at
Old Miss.

Scored!
One hundred points in a single game
as great, Wilt Chamberlin,
sets record.

New
legend is born on the silver screen.
Doctor No unleashes
James Bond.

Death
shocks nation in August when actress,
Marylin Monroe found
OD'd.

First
Wal-Mart store opens up for business
in Rogers, Arkansas.
We Shop.

Then
Target store of Dayton-Hudson corp.
opens in Roseville, Minn.
in May.

Dick
Nixon loses Cal. Governor's race.
Says, won't have him to kick
around.

What
a most incredible year it was!
I miss my twenty nine
inch waist.