Half of You Doesn't Exist Yet. That Would Be The Future.

"Writing does not equal typing. Typing is about as much writing as using an etch-a-sketch makes you an accomplished illustrator." 

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There's something about being born in the 80s, 
I think, that develops a person differently. 
Something not quite unmistakable but 
once you hear it you can't miss it. 

Maybe it's because of Reagan. 
There hadn't been that sort of consistency 
in a president in decades. Maybe 
it's because no one studied history. Maybe 
it's because when they did they lied. 

You don't hear much about Jimmy Carter 
except that after he left office he committed 
himself to helping poor people. (And I'll always love 
him for referencing Bob Dylan even more than 
10 years after the fact.) 

Certainly no one took the Energy Crisis seriously. 
Or racism. Or drug-addiction. Or wealth-inequality. 
About ten years earlier than I was born, George McGovern 
ran with the party that had seen the youngest president in 
our national history have bullets put into 
his chest and skull during a parade. (Then Nixon won, 
Nixon resigned, and Ford got replaced by Carter.) 

I turned 7 in 1990. I remember the Gulf War on t.v. 
I can't remember if I had any strong opinions about it. 
And both my parents voted for Ross Perot. (Don't 
forget your spot if you go do a Google-search now.) 

Maybe it's because my generation has done their best to not take things 
for granted in spite of an overwhelming culture of taking things 
for granted. Maybe there's some formula for mental illness 
and the intellectual concerns of any given people, and that 
a sustained litany of gibberish, gaslighting, dull memes, and 
mobs without earthly purpose 
clamoring for golden-calves in the forms of NFTs, 
money burned on cellphones no one "really" uses, and white 
middleclass drug-addicts expecting, demanding mercy for 
their lame selfishness. 

Can we get a hacker on this? 

Maybe my head is the way it is 
because I write by hand. 
Maybe it's because I don't say things
like it is what is like 
a phoney piece of shit. 

Regardless, young people, young 
America, do what you can 
to not be despondently old. 




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