Detroit, 1984
In January 1969
we agreed to meet
greet the new year of 1984
in an abandoned warehouse in
Detroit
-a perfect gesture
in the mind’s eyes
of Midwest college
freshmen absurdists
But by the time
that Orwell milestone
arrived
we were all long gone
no longer conspirators
likely no man would have
left wife
children
life
for such symbolic foolery
with such marginal reason
But I did think about it, sure
many times 01/06/69 onward
and on 01/01/84
and I imagine
Larry, Mike, Terry, Ken, and Doug
did too
at least they did
in my magical
revisionist history
of the 20th Century
where naïve chords of freedom
ring on in fleeting years
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