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52/405: Last or Not Last
Apr. 13th, 2026 11:15 pmThere is evidence that I survived Monday, but it won't be conclusive for the better part of an hour yet. If I write slowly enough, we might find out before I post. Or maybe I can just go watch music videos for a while, instead of just letting the music play in the background. Playing in the back ground is what it's doing right now. At the moment this is playing:
I had that record on vinyl. Bought it not long after it came out in 1964. Now I'm thinking about all the moments that passed by while I was playing it back then. They were not much like this moment, though they had this song in common. I was young (but older each time) then, and the song would evoke possible future events. Things like it might have happened. But they didn't, and now the song is about the past, and describes a kind of void in it that will never be filled. Wolfe was right, you can't go home again. Sometimes it's almost like I was never there. But I take my memories and words to be forensic evidence. That happened, this is happening, I don't know what will happen next, but eventually the inevitable will happen. But Duke and Billy's song will last, and that pleases me.
I had that record on vinyl. Bought it not long after it came out in 1964. Now I'm thinking about all the moments that passed by while I was playing it back then. They were not much like this moment, though they had this song in common. I was young (but older each time) then, and the song would evoke possible future events. Things like it might have happened. But they didn't, and now the song is about the past, and describes a kind of void in it that will never be filled. Wolfe was right, you can't go home again. Sometimes it's almost like I was never there. But I take my memories and words to be forensic evidence. That happened, this is happening, I don't know what will happen next, but eventually the inevitable will happen. But Duke and Billy's song will last, and that pleases me.
