Berkley Campus, 1980

John G. Young, M.D.

 

I asked her how it was to be here

In the eighties

''Rather conservative,'' she said.

''Even the frats are back.''

But when I heard Dan Ellsberg

Over a speaker asking us

''To ban the bomb…''

I began to wonder . . .

 

Leaving the campus

I saw in large red letters

Scrawled across a marble wall

''Don't be stupid'' --

I knew she was right.

 

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