Another Decade for my Great Grandson

Soren the 1990s

Party time, “We Can Have it All.”
The end of a millennium
The Y2k problem hung ou’er our heads.
(Hang in, I’ll tell you later.)

I lived 83 years in dreams of utopia.
Soviet hope of socialism implodes.
Dream, each according to need.
75 years later with no bananas, no socialism.
In the end. nothing is what it seems.

NASA shot a telescope into space.
Hubbell’s picture of infinite vastness.
Creationists, “God did that few millennial back.
I’m with “fifteen billion year evolution.”
Thanks, Bronx Zoo Chimpanzee’s.

Had a quickie war in 92. Over?
Kuwait oil fields. No oil, we stall, kaput finished.
Dolly a sheep, got cloned. Made a perfect copy.
People someday maybe? Creationists go berserk.
“Only God can make a tree.” and a sheep.
Grandpa, can make furniture.

And the Y2k pendulum looms ouer our heads.
Crazies tried impeaching President Clinton.
He had a wee wee problem, where to stick it.
Lesson. “Think with your head not your wee wee.”

Astrology folk or such making ready
Millennium could be end of the world?
With Y2k thing waiting for the end?

Diana, world Princess dead, 100 miles an hour
In a Paris tunnel----- end of world sign?
Citizen, terrorist blows up Fed building. Oklahoma City
Timothy doesn’t like Federal Government.
Kills 168--- 19 children. Tim says, “Sorry-- collateral damage”

Yes Y2k? Computers all at 99. Ball Drops in Times Square
Goes to 00, “Wide wide, world goes down.”
Herr Computer, Ruler of our lives.

Internet is? Connective tissue.
Relax, Soren boy. 2000 comes. Ball drops. Guess what?
Suns up, coffee’s on the stove, life’s beautiful.

Livin in the 21st Century worry most
Every inch of Bountiful Planet being used up.
Might never be able to fix it.
The way your Mommy and Daddy fixed that
Old Rockin Horse from Great Grandpa Bob.

2011 up ahead. Hope The NY Times Makes it,
To 2012 grandpa be 95 by then.
Love, from your Great Grandpabob.