Sean Brodie's Response to Mary's Poem "The Moratorium"

Reading Mary's Poem "The Moratorium" was an interesting poem telling about the protest for peace during the Vietnam War in 1969. The character in that story was smoking Marijuana and listening to a band called King Crimson for the comfort of peace. The nameless character was so intoxicated, that the individual experience hallucinations and other side effects from the substance. The character was in a peaceful state, where the parents nagging didn't bother the person; the door where the individual dwell in was closed, so that no one could get in. The state of peace the character was feeling was so great, that there was no worries, feelings, pain, or thoughts. It was one's personal Heaven. Suddenly, the character woke up in prison and lost all signs of hope.

I learned some new things about the past like the band King Crimson and the Moratorium; although, I remember the kaleidoscope. I used to play with it as a little kid, but didn't know what it was called. Thanks Mary for bringing back good memories. The poem was very interesting, I learned a little bit about history and what people do back in the late 1960s. The experience of being intoxicated from the Marijuana was described very well; I had wild imaginations from reading it like the Beatles playing "Come Together" or hippies at Woodstock having the time of their life. "I had not thoughts, no feelings, no worries, nothing haunted me." I like how you described the words in this poem very well. "The Vietnam War demonstrations were more like a kaleidoscope of confusion." "It was a timely chance for me to swing at the illusion of

a peaceful pantomime called cannabis." "I smoked for Peace and became enmeshed within its foundation;

there was no foundation. The pushers did not tell of angel dust sparkling among the weeds...

like diamonds in African rock." I like the twist on how the character suffered the consequence of being incarcerated in Hotel California Prison, and all hope felt like it was lost. It really teach me how the youth generation of that time, use things to give them pleasure compared to the present time, where we have computers, video games, High Definition Digital Television, or the internet.