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0 posted 2006-04-02 09:53 PM


I Needed A Babysitter When I Was 19 (It Was The Late Seventies)
By: Noah Eaton
4/2/06

By the time I became a teenager,
muckrakers came back with a vengeance,
Sidney Lens took libraries hostage,
Robert Engler flooded every cubic inch,
my mother forced me under house arrest,
she refused to believe there was an oil crisis,
she didn’t want my head filled with media myths,
so I became the uncultivated home finch.

Eating space food sticks in my huckapoo shirt,
I never got to see Manfred Mann's Earth Band in concert,
I needed a babysitter when I was nineteen,
(it was the late 70’s, quite a crazy time)
Hoarding up on Pizza Burgers and Screaming Yellow Zonkers,
I never got to see Invasion of the Blood Farmers in theatre,
I needed a babysitter when I was nineteen,
(it was the late 70’s, quite a crazy time)

Seemed every adolescent except me were rookies,
on tolerating Ninja Turtles Arroroot Cookies,
at least they beat the taste of tartar steak,
I’d crumble and sprinkle them on Shamrock Shakes,
my fingers were cuffed to the Atari 2600,
I was to Space Invaders what El Cid is to Madrid,
I threw quite a philharmonic pitch,
gussied up in my Stong Ding-a-ling Ostrich,
I went Wally wally blood and dolly over Mork & Mindy,
I dreamed of sailing to Ork when it got real windy,
I’d even brisk through the Gong Show’s stage crew,
and wail “Nanoo, nanoo!” through my kazoo!

Sitting in my kangaroo socks licking Lick ‘M” Aid,
I swear I had it so much I should be put on Medicaid,
I needed a babysitter when I was nineteen,
(it was the late 70’s, quite a crazy time)
Hoarding up on Chocodiles, Koogle and Whatchamacallits,
I never got to see “Death Race 2000”,
I needed a babysitter when I was nineteen,
(it was the late 70’s, quite a crazy time)

Cetus Lapedus,
this is miraculous,
no Olympic gymnast will dare make a patiche,
of the gymnastic perfection of Nadia Comenci,
Jeepers creepers,
I’m so coposhi in these Pro Ked sneakers,
Too bad I got all distant and lonely,
Seemed my only friends were Mon Chi Chi’s.

Hey, Clem, Clyde and Clara,
how’d you like to wipe away this era’s mascara?

All tied to the mattress of this scupper,
of endless Click Clack injuries and Safari Suppers
I needed a babysitter when I was nineteen,
(it was the late 70’s, quite a crazy time)
I must have watched every episode of Celebrity Sweepstakes,
nowadays I get migraine listening to “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”,
I needed a babysitter when I was nineteen,
(it was the late 70’s, quite a crazy time)
.
.
(I’m twenty-five and a half years old now,
and all I can say is...

Audi 5000!
.
.
ha ha ha...
.
.
...catch you on the rebound,
ah ha ha ha haaaaa!)


"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"

Mother Teresa

[This message has been edited by Mistletoe Angel (04-03-2006 02:28 PM).]

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1 posted 2006-04-02 10:09 PM


"I was to Space Invaders what El Cid is to Madrid,
I threw quite a philharmonic pitch"


I bet you did, too!

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2 posted 2006-04-04 09:12 AM


***"Too bad I got all distant and lonely,
Seemed my only friends were Mon Chi Chi’s."

***"Hey, Clem, Clyde and Clara,
how’d you like to wipe away this era’s mascara?"

~ You make me want to cry and laugh at the same time!

***"I never got to see Manfred Mann's Earth Band in concert,"

"I never got to see Invasion of the Blood Farmers in theatre,"

*I never got to see “Death Race 2000”,

~ I missed out on that schtuff too! ~ and I think we're both okay for it! lol

Nanoo, nanoo!

Linda


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3 posted 2006-04-04 10:13 AM


Noah, your a treasure of words, images...and must agree here with Linda's comment...

adding...your a pleasure to read...

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