our parents drank scotch


Were our folks generation
Better off than our desires?

On a run to crystal waterfalls
In black & white images-

Folded into an $800.00 roadster
On the way to the delivery room-

Picking out pears in a grocery store aisle,
Rushing home to hear JFK's speech.

Were our parents
At some great advantage?

The camera still snaps the same,
The child still loves an old rope swing.

It seems to me computers have replaced tv's.

A quarter for 25 pennies,
more to choose .. discard

less to be numb about.