Remember a poem that began "remember when "hippie" meant big in t

Question:

Remember a poem that began "remember when "hippie" meant big in the hips?

This was written in the 70's about how words have changed meanings. Like "gay" doesn't mean "happy" any more. I only remember the first two lines barely.

Remember when "hippie" meant big in the hips? When "trip" was to travel in planes, trains, and ships?

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WORD MEANINGS CHANGE

Remember when HIPPIE meant big in the hips; and a TRIP involved travel in planes, cars and ships?
When POT was a vessel for cooking things in, and HOOKED was the thing that a fish might have been?
When FIX was a verb that meant mend or repair, and BE IN meant simply existing somewhere?
When NEAT meant well-organised, tidy and clean, and GRASS was a ground cover, usually green?
When lights and not people were SWITCHED ON and OFF, and the PILL might have been what you took for a cough?

When CHICKEN meant poultry and BAG meant a sack, and JUNK - trashy castoffs and old bric-a-brac?
When JAM was preserves that you spread on your bread, and CRAZY meant balmy - not quite right in the head?
When CAT was a feline, a kitten grown up, and TEA was a liquid you drank from a cup?
When SWINGER was someone who swung on a swing, and a PAS was a soft and cushiony thing?
When WAY OUT meant distant and far, far away, and a man couldn't sue you for calling him GAY?

Words once so sensible, sober and serious are making the FREAK SCENE like PSYCHEDELIRIOUS.
It's GROOVY, MAN, GROOVY, but English it's not.
Me thinks that the language has gone straight to POT.

- Airdrie Ferguson (1000 Stories You Can Use, Volume Two by Frank Mihalic, SVD)