Fortuitous Poem by Jonathan Gould

At the same time,
From its frenzied, inchoate beginnings in Britain and the United States,
The great upsurge of adolescent fervor that the press called Beatlemania
Would coalesce into one of the main tributaries
Of a broad confluence of pop enthusiasm, student activism, and mass bohemianism
That would flood the political, social, and cultural landscape
Of much of the industrialized world during the second half of the 1960s,
Spinning off whorls and eddies—
The woman movement,
The gay liberation movement,
The environmental movement—
In its wake.