School started again in the fall, my tan faded, I trudged into Saint Andrew The Apostle with scissors, Elmer’s glue, a pencil case, and brand new textbooks with pages that were blurry yet vivid to the touch, I looked down at my feet, they were there and they weren't, in my head, or from a passing car, 10cc's "The Things We Do For Love" was playing.Essays and essaying. Rock & roll and art. Looking and listening. Synonyms for memory. Synonyms for thinking about memory. Nostalgia versus skepticism. The distance between bygones and bitrates. Books and CDs. Chapbooks and vinyl. 45 and 33 1/3 and 320. Thoughts. Arguments. High in between low. Mythmaking.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
An Origin Story
School started again in the fall, my tan faded, I trudged into Saint Andrew The Apostle with scissors, Elmer’s glue, a pencil case, and brand new textbooks with pages that were blurry yet vivid to the touch, I looked down at my feet, they were there and they weren't, in my head, or from a passing car, 10cc's "The Things We Do For Love" was playing.
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2 comments:
Great image. I think you should pad it a wee bit and send it to Six Sentences:
http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Richard.
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