An Evening Sipping Tequila

I’m thinking...remembering.
The Ides of March had only one hit,
“Vehicle”, an attempt to run with Chicago and
Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
You know, the big horn section,
nice and brassy. They weren’t that bad.
After Blues from Laurel Canyon
John Mayall seemed boring.
There was Strawberry Alarm Clock’s
“Incense and Peppermint”, which was fairly silly.
Surely you remember the rambling,
incoherent, “American Pie”, which everyone liked,
and that ridiculous “MacArthur’s Park”
sung by Richard Harris.
We saw the Berlin Wall built, lasting
from 1961 to 1989.
It was a failure. Even in 1961, we knew
it would eventually be that.
Nice try, Nikita.
But, thank goodness,
Leonard Cohen became better with age.
Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of the
“Star Spangled Banner” still reverberates
the pain of where we have been,
and where we are again.