"Playing solitaire till dawn,
with a deck of fifty-one,
smokin’ cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo,
now don’t tell me,
I’ve nothing to do…"
Not no more, you can’t. The lyrics above come from a 70’s song when songs told stories. Its meaning is fast becoming obsolete–because you cannot lose that fifty-second card on a computer. And nothing to do? The world is open to anyone with internet access. Lonely? There’s e-mail, weblogs, chatrooms. Captain Kangaroo no longer is the only option at six a.m.
Life is no longer as we once knew it to be. But then, it never is.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology