'Everything Is Going To Be All Right' - Derek Mahon

from one of my favorite northern irish poets who have seen, & lived, thru some shit

sure, i am optimistic by default.  sue me!  but as mahon says, 'there will be dying/there will be dying' & still 'everything will be all right'.  

but this is bizarro world.  virginia woolf claimed human nature changed 'on or around december 1910.'  that really wasn't so long ago.  she was talking about modernism.  & the lead-up to the Great War, the war that broke the world.  now we live in a post-post-modernist era.  & the way things worked even 20 years ago have changed.    

into what?  we are still learning that as we go.

still, i believe, as mahon says in this poem, 'that everything will be all right.'  cuz we got no choice but to live in the present age.  there is no other age for which we can go.

 i hope mahon is right.

i really fucking hope so