Counter Culture (revised from Systemized)

Poor Jack Kerouac
The hitchhikin’ days are over.

Letting your chips fall where they may
No longer gets you bread and butter

Childhood lasts til thirty,
A high school diploma? Nuthin’

The Journeymen are gone
The Jack of All Trades is lost

The hippies are old
The pot, halfway to legal

Arms are still not for hugging
And the flowers? Wilting.

Hitchhikin’ days are over, Jack.

Systemized

The hitchhiking days are over.
Letting your chips fall
Where they may,
No longer gets you bread and butter

Childhood lasts til thirty
Or beyond
A high school diploma
Is nothing

College has become high school
Grad school will be a must
The Journeymen are gone
The Jack of All Trades is lost

The hippies are old
The pot, halfway to legal
Arms are still not for hugging
And the flowers are wilting.

Hitchhiking days are over