![]() They are our future until they too perish. The children are our future only in the most narrow, transitive sense. ![]() I’m quoting here from “The Greatest Love of All,” by 1980s pop diva Whitney Houston, track nine of her eponymous first LP. We don’t die because our progeny lives on! The ritual passing of the DNA, Mama’s corkscrew curls, his granddaddy’s lower lip, ah buh-lieve thuh chil’ren ah our future. There’s more, isn’t there? There’s our legacy. When I beg the pilot of this rickety United-ContinentalDeltamerican plane currently trembling its way across the Atlantic to turn around and head straight back to Rome and into Eunice Park’s fickle arms, that’s a journey.īut wait. When I take the number 6 train to see my social worker, that’s a journey. Their lives, their entirety, will be marked by glossy marble headstones bearing false summations (“her star shone brightly,” “never to be forgotten,” “he liked jazz”), and then these too will be lost in a coastal flood or get hacked to pieces by some genetically modified future-turkey.ĭon’t let them tell you life’s a journey. Nothing of their personality will remain. ![]() Today I’ve made a major decision: I am never going to die.
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