Michael Estabrook

Child Of The 60s

My secretary
only 4 when
I graduated college
giggles and scrunches
her forehead
when
I tell her I
was a child of the
60s -- free love,
peace marches,
Hendrix & Joplin & Cream,
my hair at one
time
down to my shoulders,
bell-bottomed pants,
peace-sign emblems
dangling
around my neck.
Hard to believe now
seeing me in this
white
shirt & tan tie &
stupid brown suit.


Michael Estabrook says: I’m a Marketing Communications Manager for a tiny division of a gigantic company, and man, going into an office every day can be excruciating. As my avocation, I’ve been writing poetry for so long that Methuselah should be taking notice, but in reality, time is simply doing its thing streaking ahead blithely pulling all of us along for the wild ride whether we like it or not; reminds me, I’ve published 15 chapbooks over the years, the last one just came out about my Dad, “methinks I see my father,” done in cahoots with the talented Glenn Cooper from Australia, and before that was “when Patti would fall asleep,” about my wife. Guess you could say I’m a family man.

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July 2007

Annabelle Butterworth
Patricia Cook
Joshua Cristiano
Michael Estabrook
Anthony Gee
Taylor Graham
Michael Lee Johnson
Jerry Judge
Stephanie Kemp
Michael Keshigian
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Brian Mayer
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