"i'm okay android"

[UtzoztU]

somehow

hippies are the only

thing that

came out of the

60s and 70s

i think

and

the whole country

and the whole

world

was changed

by the entirety of what happened



and now groups

LGBTQ+ get to see that light, too

which is covered

by the media

and by ourselves.



there is something about

free love

and something about freedom

and something

we can't know

about the way feelings

sidewind

into certain bends, which

we can't quite help

but seeing them freeze there,

we who were only born

like i am

20 and 30 years later, looking

for the same things.



i guess i tried

being a hippy

cuz i saw them on tv

and imagined the love

and heard the stories.



is any drug

not a gateway?

is any history

not actually spanned

across our very skin?



now i remember

I'm dying everyway everyday

and people

seem to use this

hate instead of love,

and we yell and scream

I can't even hear the words,

and if they're telling stories?

if they're yelling for me?

I can only imagine

how hurt everyone else is,

besides me.



I guess

it's called narcissism,

and

the key

is beyond me,

but not

thrown away;

I guess

it's no matter

what i say or feel or think

about this world,

and

that makes the poetry

sad.



my parents were hippies!

God love them.