Ode to the Nineties

by Barbara E. Connor

Planned obsolescence
Flights to the moon
Virtual reality
Cloning soon

Eatable underwear
Sperm bank deposits
Gender preferences
Out of closets

Database internets
On-line porn
Channel surfing
Night through morn

Tornadoes, floods
Hurricanes, freezes
Volcanic eruptions
Unnatural breezes

Explosions, implosions
Desert Storm
Pathfinder missiles
Abominable norm,

Instant gratification
Quality time
Infomercials
Serial Crime

Psycho babble
Cyber-space
Very well
May have a place

Still buzz words come
And buzz words go
Ever was, old dear
Will be ever so

Ah, but fifty candles,
A haunting tune
And you'll soon forget
That trip to the moon

For nothing compares
To the lasting effects
When your lover's beside you
And you're having great sex.

-- BEC
©2000 Barbara E. Connor

Barbara E. Connor writes, "After two marriages, nine kids, and 20 years in retail, I am finally in a place where I can pursue my first and abiding love, writing. My work has been published in regional magazines, periodicals and newspapers. By some stroke of good fortune, my first piece of fiction, a short story entitled "Ashes to Ashes," was published in April as part of a collection of short stories titled Touch of Paradise."