Juke box queen rememberance

It was a 50s scene with the jukebox queen

And big hair sprayed bob eyeliner
It was a 50s scene with the jukebox queen
And the cold called quiet demeanors
It was a 50s scene with the jukebox queen
And the cigarrette smile through laughter
It was a 50s scene with the jukebox queen
And the high shorts waist no higher 
It was a 50s scene with the juke box queen 
Life a black and white paradigm
With future technicolor things
And amazement in Cold War calamity
With space race arms race this race that race white race black race plant race human race out of time and out of space
 the chasing never ended...but they convince themselves it never began
So back to our 50s scene (now 60syeah ) 
There's no jukebox queen
And the burger shake orders did end
The streets filled with grassroots protest 
In a Vietnam conquest 
No friend did neighbor find to fend
Silent pot smoke vans in places
Possibly permitted turning up to 
Places shrugging shoulder knocking knees.
 It was a 50s scene now its the 70s heavy hearted Duress
With disco child birth coming soon 
With a billy-Joel Springsteen and the coming of days
Music rock disco electroand a psychedelic aftershock
TV Shot the radio star left her bleeding in the streets
Technicolor dreams fully realized from acid tabs tongue taken
Show up on billboards faded filters memory mistaken
With a soundwave shock they shot that old jukebox and melody floated far far away
With Elvis in his bathtub death 
And a Nixon watergate wanders free
So with a nostalgic haze came the 80s cocaine craze 
Our generations waits idly to be conceived 
Then in the 90s flash we came born into the 21st century 
So I sit with a technologic high
Whose the biggest whose the baddest
Whose phone processes fastest
Look a mirror lemme see
Everyones in love with me
Here's a snapshot let me tweet
Yeah there's nothing on my feet
I'm a gruff misunderstood hipster
With top knot lies and prepared alibies
I am the centerfold of universal ambition
Post modern thoughts about presupposed pasts and a very faint understanding of what it all means
But I yackity yackity yak yak about the burdens on my back and my misplaced love from parents who don't understand me.
CuZ I love everyone but I really love myself and I am afraid everything I am is what they will see
So I create aesthetic pleasure in fantasy visions of myself and live in dreams backslash . Com 
 
So I sip sad hymns and think of us simpletons 
So advanced and yet so behind
By myself my phone and I 
Dine at dinners I can't afford 
With credit card crimes
And films pirated
I'm a jukebox dancer lived alone
Feeling oddly misplaced 
And sad mistake of a self-obsessed 
Generational mess 
 
I miss old cars and laying under the stars 
And bowling alley entertainment
Though I've never had it I feel as though I have
Kafka existential déjà vu
Waste of time 
So sad so sublime
Generation Y what did u do?
 
 
This poem is about: 
Me

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