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Childhood dreams

By jfarrell

I was born in 1967;

Man had landed on the moon

And Dr Who and Star Trek

Were the best shows on TV.

Too young to be afraid of Russia, or Vietnam or Yugoslavia;

Daleks, Klingons, Cybermen,

Were my enemy;

Mankind’s enemy.

The United Federation of Planets;

Not just us;

A host of planets, spread across the galaxy;

United.

Well, Brexit’s put that back about a billion years;

On the bright side.. if the daleks and cybermen ARE watching;

They’re wetting themselves laughing;

And all that water gonna make them very rusty

Maybe, mankind will survive.

When they invade.

Then I could surrender and fulfil my childhood dream…

To be assimilated; to become a BORG.