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    Posted January 27, 2010 by
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    Living in a time warp?

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    I Can't Get Over Kansas

    By Awakened2  |  Posted January 27, 2010  |  Anywhere, U.S.A.
     

    The first tab shows how I looked in 1977 at age 25. The second shows me now, age 57.

     

    I can't get over Kansas. I can't get over Grateful Dead. I've got "Sweet Lorraine," by Country Joe and the Fish, on an iPod that would've been a sci-fi, acidhead dream back in the day.

     

    Remember? "Sweet lady of death wants me to die/So she can sit by my bedside and sigh/And wipe away the tears from all my friends' eyes ..."

     

    Either I'm living in a time warp, or else I can't grow up. You choose -- I can't.

     

    Psychically stuck in a period roughly spanning the Tet Offensive, Operation Babylift, Watergate, and Pol Pot's killing fields -- put plainly, not such a great time -- I must be hanging on for a reason. Was it the cool music? Was it youth?

     

    Was it bralessness? Maybe it was. Because I sure can't do that anymore.

     

    I can't get over Kansas. I can't get over Grateful Dead. I can't get over myself, younger.

     

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