the show, moments watching with my son, my era, the 80’s, aware of how time works, for me it was the 50’s/60’s, grease, fonzie, then later, the wonder years, this is the way it goes, generations get nostalgic, writers record stories, capture memories, kate bush, dungeons & dragons, big al’s, rydell high, joe cocker, seventy years from now no one will care about stranger things, winona ryder will be dead, so will i, but sitting in the dark tv glow next to my son, i’d make a deal with god, just to freeze time a little bit.
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Gen X Listens To Chappell Roan
good luck, babe, progeny of tori amos & kate bush, the 1980’s, their “tell” -stratified debris of an earlier generation of people- now buried under chappell roan’s civilization, and so it goes, guthrie gave way to dylan, madonna to gaga, dicaprio to chalamet, not to say tori and kate are gone, but they are, & one day roan will disappear too, obvious, the young push out the old, why does this matter? because we all hold too tightly, grip less firmly, because, in the words of sufjan stevens, all things go
Daniel W. Polk 