IF I WAS 18 DURING THE 70'S

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 -I often marvel at the thought.
-What if I was 18 during the 70’s.
-I am a 80s baby being born in 75’.
-So I do have pictured with bellbottoms, butterfly collars and an afro.
-And since my Papi was a “Black Panther”
-I remember his poster of Vince Mathews and Wayne Collett at the Olympic Games of 72.
-It was then that he explained to me “The power of the fist”.
-He told me of the Kent State Murders and things of that nature.
-Now, my momma was still a flower child.
-Oh how she hated war.
-Oh how she loved her green.
-She burned flags and bras.
-So between my Momma and Papi.
-I was saying, “Peace”
-Real militantly.
-My Granny Big Mike’s a holy roller.
-I loved staying at her house.
-Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Oral Roberts, and Jerry Falwell didn’t bother me.
-There’s gotta be a place better than this.
-Then there was “The Man” Poppa Settles.
-Quiet and Powerful.
-Factory Worker, Fisherman, Bowler.
-Nothing fazed him.
-Not even the 70’s.
-Me? I woulda got lost in the sauce.
-I woulda made it at least once into Studio 54 in platform shoes.
-I woulda seen Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock too.
-Drugs had a hold onto me this millennium so it woulda back then.
-I’ve seen “Deep Throat” “Secrets” and “The Devil in Miss Jones” but I really woulda liked to see em at an adult movie theatre.
-But Saturday Night Fever was the best.
-Next, Up in Smoke.
-And I love that “Rocky Horror Picture Show”
-I don’t think bathhouses woulda been my thing though.
-See what I often marvel about?
-If I woulda been 18,
-During the 70’s?