We're In Trrooouuuble!
I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly , black leather poppa chair in my living room, and I've just read what might be the best Louie Louie Generation poem ever written. Proud Podcast Participant John Lancellotti sent it to me. He wrote it a long time ago. It's called, HANGIN OUT. And It goes like this: \nWe did it in the dark street\nas daytime turned to night.\nYou'd find us hangin' out\nbenearth a corner light.\nOr maybe down the block,\nwe'd gather in a group\nto spend the evening laughing,\nnoisy shadows on a stoop.\nWe dared the night to harm us--\nwith danger always near --\nbut hangin' with the crowd\nwas a room we closed to fear.\nFor boys it was a passage\nthat led to being men.\nWe learned that life was struggle,\nthe gutter's great Amen...\nFor girls it was a time\nto test a woman's ways,\nto learn about the magic\nthat turned their men to slaves.\nThat's how the city brewed us\nin the kettle of the street,\nwhere hangin' out with friends\nmade being kids so sweet.