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Boomer’s Elegy

Next stop, Fuddyduddyville, and I’m about to get off the train. The whole town sags. It’s the stop for ancillaries:  annoying mothers who complain of neglect, stockbrokers traded in for younger, meaner models, beer-drinking uncles who give advice to hot-headed lads. Amours, escapades, yearnings, and great clothes that fit, They’re all two towns back, where we came from.  So are most of our big mistakes and the passions that made them happen.  Where we’re going, there’s Hendrix and the Stones in all the elevators, and movies without special effects. People in restaurants  don’t answer telephones or wear ball caps.  They talk about spending money, not getting it.  Their map charts the undiscovered, misplaced rest of the world,  and they disregard the all aboard for Dim Tomorrow,  the way travelers in this country always do. 

Copyright © July 2000 Fran S. Hillyer


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