Am I too old-fashioned?

What ever happened to phone calls or snail mail?

Love letters? Leopard-skin pill-box hats?

Monogamy?

I want things to move back into time. One by one. Little by little.

So I could enjoy a brief moment of what used to be.

I could drink with the flappers at the local speakeasy.

I could rob a bank with Dillinger on the brink of starvation.

I could listen to The Beatles on the radio for the first time.

I could rebel against being a housewife with Betty Friedan.

I could folk it up in Greenwich Village with Bob Dylan.

I could fight for civil rights with the counterculture.

I could skinny dip with the hippies at Woodstock, too.

But I don't want to stay in one place forever.

I want to be everywhere.

I want to see everything.

I want to meet everyone.

I want to live la dolce vita.

Free from tyranny.

Free from evil.

Free from influences.

Free from celebrities.

Free from bullshit melodrama.

Free from bad memories.

Free from bad movies and bad jokes.

Free from man-eaters and womanizers.

Free from a pair of hateful eyes.

Free from racism, sexism, and ageism.

Free from war, violence, and intolerance.

I know as people we have come a long way. We are not perfect, but we should come pretty damn close.

Considering we know and accept the horrible things we do to one another on a day-to-day basis.

Considering the horrible conditions unfortunate people live in and the pointless shit fortunate people spend their money on when they can be helping a much greater cause.

Considering we know the amount of bloodshed and heartache caused in war yet continue to fight with people we say are our enemies, but in reality are just as scared shitless as we all are.

I am displaced and have always been.

I was born into a life of shackles.

It was not meant to happen this way.

I'm mad.

Mad to live.

Mad to die.

Mad to be saved.