1959
But she's a bad girl
Because she wants to be free
She wants to be free
& Transatlantic telephone cables continue & earth orbiting
satellites are launched to measure shapes of clouds, cause
& rotation. Locus pinpointed. Kind of Blue recorded. Slim
progression & harmony, honey score & flit, fleet, modality—
sets & scales. Able & Baker barrel through space weightless
wonder rhesus & squirrel aboard Jupiter AM-18 back towards
the deep end of all the 50’s—collision & pomp. Pompadours
& still cigarettes.
& Barbie is born.
She wasn't a bad girl, girl at first
So good at the start
But now, now we must part
Oh yes, she's bad girl
*Lyrics from Bad Girl - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles