surrender (gilligan’s island)
a child
of the sixties
stops
by a stream
that is
never
stopping,
to think:
about the outline
of a fading america
on an asphalt playground;
about who
really numbers
telephone poles;
about why mommy changes
vietnam news
to gilligan's island;
about where hippies live,
and why they look
like a small ocean,
free, but
waving
white
flags.