[Magdalen] Where Were You?

[ME Michaud]

I was celebrating my birthday with friends.
We went across the river to Maine for fried clams,
then all took celebratory drugs.

By the time we made it back to a friend's house,
the television was broadcasting the snowy black&white image of the stiff
flag.
We watched for awhile, but it was boring,
so we went to sit on the porch and listen to the night and the leaves
blowing.

Three weeks later we went to Woodstock.
Three years later I was working with the designers of Skylab.
-M


On Tuesday, July 16, 2019, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> I was 17 years old, a new mom, sweltering in our tiny, newlywed studio
> apartment, lights off for the sleeping baby, and glued to our tv screen.
> The husband was working his well-paying factory job at Columbia Records.
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:20 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> wrote:
>
> > I was in a small auditorium at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in
> > Greenbelt, Maryland. Goddard was not directly involved with manned space
> > flight, but there was an strong sense of community. I got to be there
> > because I had a job working for one of the researchers involved with
> Apollo
> > 17.
> >
> > It was a transcendent experience. Despite being in a group of 300
> > engineers who mostly did not know how to weep with joy.
> >
> --
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>