Terry
Are you optimistic
´bout the way things are going?
Peter
No, I nver ever think of it at all
Terry
Don´t you ever worry
When you see what´s going down?
Peter
No, I try to mind my business,
that is, no business at all
Terry
When it´s time to function
as a feeling human being, will your
Bachelor of Arts help you get by?
Peter
I hope to study further,
a few more years or so. I also hope
to keep a steady high
Terry
Will you try to change
things, use the power that you have,
the power of a million new ideas?
Peter
What is this power you
speak of and this need for things to
change? I always thought
that everything was fine
Terry
Don´t you feel repression just
closing in around?
Peter
No, the campus here is very, very free
Terry
Does it make you angry
the way war is dragging on?
Peter
Well, I hope the President
knows what he´s into, I don´t know
Terry
Don´t you ever see the starvation
in the city where you live, all the
needless hunger all the
needless pain?
Peter
I haven´t been there lately,
the country is so fine, but my
neighbors don´t seem hungry ´cause
they haven´t got the time
Terry
Thank you for the talk,
you know you really eased my mind
I was troubled by the shapes
of things to come.
Peter
Well, if you had my
outlook your feelings would be
numb, you´d always think
that everything was fine