I used to think
I understood
what modern times
were all about
I called them
the New Fade
because nothing seems to work
the way it used to,
any way that makes sense
really
But the New Fade
was supposed to be
about rapidity
Not some perverse
entrenchment
No,
not the one
everyone seems
fixated on
But a willful denial
that such a thing as history
still exists
That we actually can know
what happened in the past
and that we can still apply it
today
So maybe
just maybe
the New Fade
has now become
something else
A study of
the information age
in which we seem to know
nothing
How's that for a change?
Interesting new direction….
ReplyDeleteYeah. These last two sections have appeared in my poetry for over a decade. I like to see how they evolve over time.
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