Classic
Langston Hughes once asked something about dreams
And their fate after people lose interest
Something like the fate of the dodge meme
And how if you asked a teenager
What their wolf name was they would look at you as if possessed
But even these young upstarts know the meaning of the word "yeet"
(William Shakespeare basically wrote sonnet 55 about this).
The thing about timelessness,
As the band MTKO sings,
Is that the phrase "Mona Lisa smile"
Now refers to the painting, three pop songs, and a movie from 2003 staring Julia Roberts
And "The Crossing of the Brooklyn Ferry"
by Walt Whitman refers to a part of New York City that is now a TJ Max
Probably.
So, what's left, when everything else is dust?
Or, as Emily Dickinson asks in her poem "I heard a fly buzz-when I died"
If animal crossing is better then real life (and it is)
Why bother ever putting on pants?
Perhaps the answer is something about love
Or the essential human-ness of our desire
To be understood. What else are writers but very good liars?
Something about stories
I think.
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