<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><a class="nocolor fn" href="https://allpoetry.com/poem/15863643-The-Swinging-Sixties-by-Mohsin-Maqbool-E" style="caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 23px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(141, 56, 0); text-decoration: none;">The Swinging Sixties</a><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><h1 class="title vcard item otitle_15863643" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 23px; margin: 1.5em 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 55px; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35);">Author unknown</h1></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Sixties: a decade of great turmoil.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">John F. Kennedy assassinated.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">L. B. Johnson in charge of US soil.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Cold War fully accelerated.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Chubby Checker sings "The Twist" -- starts a craze.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Soon dances like "The Watusi", "The Shake",</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"The Swim", "The Jerk" and "The Frug" are ablaze.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Beatles -- coiffures and vogue in their wake.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Civil Rights movement soon on the rise.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">MLK and his "I Have a Dream" speech --</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">all realized the black leader was wise.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Muhammad Ali with his moves could teach.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", James Bond,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">and "Our Man Flint" -- spies of a new order.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The best designer suits secret agents donned.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">They chased villains from border to border.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">A killer's bullet ends MLK's life.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Sirhan Sirhan kills R. F. Kennedy.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"The Graduate" to movies gives new life.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Spaghetti Westerns make the nation heady.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Steve McQueen with "Bullitt" raises a storm.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"The Wild Bunch" makes Sam Peckinpah a star.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">To Newman and Redford's film people swarm.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Liz Taylor, Loren and Welch are hot stars.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">On July 20, Nineteen Sixty-nine,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Apollo 11 lands on the moon.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Neil Armstrong: "...one giant leap for mankind."</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Everyone wanted to head for the moon.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ride</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glide bikes</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">in "Easy Rider". Film buffs loved the ride.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Sales of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" hiked.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Students hold protests against Vietnam war. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Hippies spread love with their "Flower Power"</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">and through their slogans of "Make Love, Not War".</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Woodstock with music and peace world showers.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Here the "Rain Chant" was sung by one and all.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"Jingo", "Soul Sacrifice" soared Santana. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Sharon Tate murders -- a curtain call </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">on an innocent Americana.</span></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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