Idealists and Fools

Idealists and Fools
by Carolee Ross

Goddess
by
Sandy Starr

We were Idealists,
Save the Rosenbergs!
Ban the Bomb, No Nukes,
and later,
Make Love not War.

We marched,
We protested,
We voted,
We were so sure
We'd changed the world.

But did we?
writing letters,
signing petitions,
Idealists and Fools,
The more things change, the more they remain the same.



Hippies became Yuppies,
Carter bowed to Reagan
and Clinton,
still hurting from Monica and Impeachment,
greeted Bush and Cheney and Gang.

And here we are, decades later,
protesting,

writing letters,
signing petitions,
Idealists and Fools,
The more things change, the more they remain the same.