1978

1978

A Poem by Randy Johnson

I want to go to a time when things were great.
I wish that I could travel back in time to 1978.
I'd like to revisit the seventies because I loved that decade.
Back then, 8 Track tapes and records were still being played.
Songs were clean back then, now they're littered with the F word.
In 1978, music meant something and vulgarity wasn't what we heard.
40 years ago, we had no smart phones and no High Definition TV.
But landline phones and standard definition are just fine with me.
video games sucked back then but I could live with an Atari.
If I could revisit 1978, I don't think that I would be sorry.

© 2018 Randy Johnson


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A great year...the year my son was born! Things were simpler then...or so it seemed. You are right, music did not have four letter words in it and we did not have cell phones...which meant we had more serenity. Ah, to have a time machine. Lydi**

Posted 6 Years Ago


I like late sixties and all seventies

Posted 6 Years Ago


1978 your preference, mine would be late sixties. Wonderful music, a feeling of excitement in fashion, theatre, film, culture. Swinging sixties in London. What I'd do to relive that. And what Jacob says, less technology would be fine by me.

Chris

Posted 6 Years Ago


and me?

i want to go back to the 60's----
lots going on then in the country...but also i lived through the 50's---seemed a simpler time back then...
and we got along just fine without all the technology.
j.

Posted 6 Years Ago


You're preachin' to the choir, son, but I'd go back a bit farther, to 1974. I was only 21, then.

Posted 6 Years Ago


and we actually talked to each other and spent a lot of time out doors

Posted 6 Years Ago



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Added on September 28, 2018
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Tags: Nostalgia, Past, Time

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Randy Johnson
Randy Johnson

TN



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I was born in Middlesboro, Kentucky on August 20, 1971. I've lived in East Tennessee since 1973. My hobbies are writing and drawing. more..

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