I wish John Lennon had lived to Imagine us into 21st century bliss,
that we'd all joined hands and started a Love Train with the O'Jays in 1976,
that we'd run head first into that wind Dylan insisted the answer was blowin' in,
or that like Marvin Gaye we'd asked What's Goin' On? instead of giving in.
...is eternal vigilance.
Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).