MORE SELTZER,
PLEASE!!!
It seems to me the
entire population is embracing and submitting to Death.
In different elevated states of misery, the obese, the neurotic and depressed, the
sick in so many ways, resent life. They
complain about existence as a bonding ritual. 'It's Too Hot, It's Too Cold'...
constantly. They were jewelry of crystal skulls. Do you know more contented
people or closet alcoholic/television addicts?
Everyone seems to want to deny this existence together, acting like
lousy house guests, gadgets and chemicals to take the mind somewhere else. Anywhere but here.
I was in line at a
music store waiting my turn. There were
7 people in the space - all looking at their cell phones. Creativity is dead in America. Everyone, but
me and the counter guy TCB, was there as a consumer. When I asked anything about playing acoustic
music, Celtic or song circles, people playing music together, you know what
I got - what I get Everywhere - about Everything -"I dunno". In a sizable city population of Green Bay, WI
there is no music being played, as far as I can tell. Still searching. I assumed I was in Music
Central.
People have left my
Realm. They have walked into their cell
phones and rudely, intend to be in my presence but succeed to ignore me. In a
music store with 8 other people, no one could, would or want to talk about any
phase of music, but begrudgingly. I had one guy laughing telling him about
playing for people and how unnerving it is to have them just blank stare at
me. His response? "I'm one of those
people", and told me he plays guitar for his wife and child, that's
it. I find that weird, to not share with
the world music you create. With a song
circle you could gain confidence, I told him. I received The Stare.
People are
different. They have changed. All seem to have lost any personality, all
fearfully, miserably internalizing. I
have been observing and chronically. No one sings, no one dance, no one puts
seltzer down their pants. A dark
enchantment has settled over the land.
The general
population is not in my fishbowl. It has been a 4 year long episode of Twilight
Zone. There's a slow train coming around the bend.
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