Skim of the Sixties

Skim of the Sixties

by Marshal Gebbie

The assassins hit in 63 
And Camelot was gone, 
Inspiration vanished 
And the darkness sang it’s song. 
Vietnam escalated 
Brezhnev’s Russia loomed, 
Africa was eviscerated 
And Red China entombed. 
Floating on a long white cloud 
The Kiwis were replete 
With abundant British markets 
For their butter, wool and meat. 
The Europeans went anal 
And Britain lost it’s way 
When the Beatles and the Rolling Stones 
Monopolized their day. 
Man landed on the moon 
And raised the Yankee flag 
And they shot Mahatma Ghandi 
For making good things out of bad. 
The Berlin Wall dividing, 
The Cold War tense and spare, 
ICBM’s threaten silently 
In their silos of despair. 
Bob Menzies ruled Australia 
In amassing of his loot 
And his White Australia Policy 
Condemned him clearly as a brute. 
Found naked on her tousled bed, 
Blonde hair across her face, 
Marylin Monroe is dead 
The world’s a darker place. 
In the Age of Aquarius 
Our children lost their youth, 
LSD and smoking pot 
And Afro’s were the proof. 
Lots of leg in miniskirts, 
High bouffant’s in the hair, 
Screaming teeny boppers 
Rock with Elvis on “the Air”. 
Giant, Rawhide, Ponderosa, 
Martin Luther King, 
Kaftans and a cheese fondue, 
Abortion is a sin! 

It’s a sixties kaleidoscope, 
A panoramic skim 
Of an era of wonderment 
Which you and I lived in. 


Marshalg 
@the Gate 
Mangere Bridge 
20th January 2009