literature bores me, especially great literature
j. berryman

pushing 40 [i'll turn 40 next june] i hate, really fucking hate, the thought currently pushed around that 40 is the new 30. by that logic, 30 is the new 20, while 20 is the new teen, and 21 months is the new 15 months. not that i feel old, still feel like the same retard i was at 16, yet the years go by fast, and that the new 40 remains the old 40.

which begs the question, do i like getting older? well, shit, there is one thing that unites all living creatures, we all get old. no one has mastered biology so that the clock goes backwards. you never get younger, tho you don't see yrself aging either. we live in a continuous present, and we do so as we age. nothing can be done about it, aging i mean. if yr lucky to live at all, yr gonna get old.

so then, i'll simply read/write, not get bitter about aging, and head to the fridge for a 2nd beer. like the dude in the cohen bros' marvelous the big lebowski, i'll try to abide.