By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The page claims the speaker's generation of students and hippy's helped stop the Vietnam War and rejects careerist regret.
The poem is direct and political, turning memory into a declaration of value. Its final contrast between living in gardens and inside widows keeps the anti-career stance vivid, strange, and defiantly personal.
A defiant testament insisting 'the five thousand of us / Students and Hippy's / Stopped the Vietnam War,' a count the speaker is 'Still today' keeping. The refusal of careerist regret ends in obscenity and image - 'go fuck yourself / Living in gardens / Instead of inside widows' - the misspelled 'widows' bleeding window into widow.