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"The Fifties" by Monica Ferrell

They were such innocents
They took straight razors to clean faces
Smoked and drank milk at the same time
Crammed whole junk yards with steel

Nearly never touched plastic
Whatever they touched was real
The TV was a box of shadows
In the living room

And if you wanted really to go crazy
There was always the bomb shelter
They were babies, comparatively
They woke each day completely new

They never had to worry about memories
Swelling and following them like algal blooms
Through the internet’s tides of forever—
I don’t even know what starch is

And have never used Brylcreem
Or testified, sweating liberally,
Before the Un-American Committee
I’ll bet back then was crummy too

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