<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><h1 class="center" itemprop="itemreviewed" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding-top: 21px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>A Hippie's Beliefs</i></span></font></h1><div class="center poem_body" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 35px;"><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I admire the work of the tree trunks and flower stems</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For they provide the less appreciative with pure beauty. </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The eye of a materialistic man </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fails to acknowledge their essential duty. </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few simple blades of grass </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Can serve as a meal to the peaceful rabbits,</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While the politicians stomach feeds on authority </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And induldge in their own shallow habits. </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I believe in a strong beating heart </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">filled with the purest passion and the deepest love.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Qualities that the heart of a conservative man</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is unfortunately devoid of. </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The creatures of the ocean </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thrive in unmatchable freedom.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A privilege of which we are forsaken</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the liberals kingdom.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I believe in a mind that dreams </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Of a world of peace and unity. </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While the man forces us to comply </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In his conformist society </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm disgusted by war </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But i'm still grateful for our army </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For protecting hippies like me, </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hendrix, Dylan, and Marley.</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">----------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Tom "Proud to be liberal hippie scum" Hansen</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Moscow, Idaho</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"> </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">- John Lennon</span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></body></html>