After I made this one I was reminded of Joe Brainard’s New Year poem “1970,” quoted in Ron Padgett’s biography:
1970
is a good year
if for no other reason
than just because
I’m tired of complaining
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After I made this one I was reminded of Joe Brainard’s New Year poem “1970,” quoted in Ron Padgett’s biography:
1970
is a good year
if for no other reason
than just because
I’m tired of complaining
I made this blackout back in 2010, but it came to mind last night when I was finishing up Malcolm Harris’s book about millennials, Kids These Days, and I read this sentence: “The First Amendment gives us the right to get together and complain until things change or we get too tired to keep going.”
“I can’t be a pessimist,” James Baldwin said, “because I am alive.”
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