Long Strange Trip

The flower children gone to seed

Bake brownies for the PTA

And give to liberals in need.

Their ponytails display some gray

And nothing tie-dyed ever fits

Despite the tofu and sorbet.

Now they are mocked as "hippie-crits"

By free-range children who refuse

To heed their parents' tired views

On love and peace and endless summer.

What a bummer.

A.M. Juster

© A.M. Juster; originally printed in Light;

reprinted by permission of the author.