ODE TO '79

'FRIENDS'
1979 to 1983
R.I.P (Rest in the past).
sneak

From Sony walkman to VHS.
From Punk to Mod and back.
A new romantic era.
Where even white was black.
Thatcher taught us selfishness.
Space invaders ruled.
We had the future all sewn up.
The future had us fooled.
Unemployment, wasted youth.
Three million count the cost.
The rise of teenage suicide.
When Maggie won - we lost.
A town called Malice. We are glass.
Prince Charming. Fade to grey.
Our hero's locked in rehab -
fight ageing mind decay.
Lennon shot. Falklands war.
A royal wedding joke.
NASA launch the space shuttle.
Billions up in smoke.
World war three? State 51
'A special relationship'
The nuclear fall-out family.
Adrenaline on drip.
Specially adapted retinas.
Rose coloured contact lens.
Nineteen seventy never.
Discharged electric 'friends'

Early mid-life crisis?
Friends-reunite dot com.
Kick the past out of the present.
The end - dot co - dot bomb!

sneak