Happy Monday. Was going to write about a serious political essay, but it is usually best for me to stay out of politics. One friend online asked what I think the most controversial issue is, but I don’t want to speak of it now.
So will comment on a pop song from the 1980s that I like. It is “Words” by Missing Persons. I recently said to an online social-media contact that pop lyrics can be just as profound as poetry studied in universities. One of my grad school professors taught a whole course on rock music. Of course Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature, even though I don’t care for his music.
“What are words for? When no one listens anymore.” It is the refrain of the Missing Persons song. There is a kind of odd video for the song with the very pretty singer/songwriter in a weird New Wave outfit and hair dye on YouTube. Anyway, it is profound to me because apparently a lot of people don’t listen to you or want to acknowledge what you say when they don’t want to hear what happened or can do nothing to rectify. The world can be cruel.