Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
Boredom had a different flavor then,
The frustration of thwarted potential
Rather than the drudgery of actualization.
If one can feel nostalgia for nostalgia,
One can surely feel nostalgia for boredom,
But one would have to swim back more than
Twenty years to the idleness of childhood:
Interminable afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.
Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
The boredom tasted different then:
the irks of thwarted potential
rather than the toil of actualization.
If you can feel nostalgia for nostalgia,
surely you can feel nostalgia for boredom,
but you would have go back more than
twenty years, to the idleness of childhood:
the slowest afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.
Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
The boredom tasted different then:
the thistles of thwarted potential
rather than the chalky loaf of achievement.
If you can still feel nostalgia for nostalgia,
you can feel nostalgia for boredom too,
but you would have cross more than
twenty years, to the loafing of childhood:
the glacial afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.
Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
The boredom tasted different then:
the thistles of thwarted potential
rather than achievement’s chalk loaf.
Feeling nostalgia for nostalgia,
why not nostalgia for boredom . . . ?
You would have cross more than twenty
years and retrieve the child’s loafing:
Stygian afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.
Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
The boredom tasted different then:
the thistles of thwarted potential
rather than achievement’s chalk loaf.
Bored with nostalgia for nostalgia?
Try nostalgia for boredom:
You have cross more than twenty
years and recapture the child’s loafing:
viscid afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.
Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
The boredom tasted different then:
the thistles of thwarted potential
rather than achievement’s chalk loaf.
Bored with nostalgia for nostalgia?
Try solastalgia’s boredom:
You have crossed more than twenty
years and recaptured the child’s loafing:
napless afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.
Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
The boredom tasted different then:
the thistles of thwarted potential
rather than achievement’s chalk loaf.
Bored with nostalgia for nostalgia?
Try solastalgia’s boredom:
You have crossed more than
years and recaptured the old loafing:
unnapped afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.
Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
The boredom tasted different then:
the thistles of thwarted potential
rather than achievement’s chalk loaf.
Bored with nostalgia for nostalgia?
Try solastalgia’s boredom:
You have crossed more than
years, the old loafing:
unmapped afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.
Twenty years — a Lethe hard to cross.
The boredom tasted different then:
the thistles of thwarted potential
rather than achievement’s chalk loaf.
Bored with nostalgia for nostalgia?
Try solastalgia’s boredom:
You have crossed more than
years, the old loafing:
offline afternoons, Saturday’s televised golf.