In order to define themselves, every generation simultaneously looks to and rejects the past.
He recognizes ours is an epoch without a voice,
We’re constantly denying our one element of unifying identity (the evasive “hipster”),
And that “now” is pretty cool and worth documenting as it’s happening, not in some Ken Burns retrospective 20 years afterword.
This outlook made him quit Cal Polly for the love of school,
Quit culinary school for the love of food, to make pancakes at a greasy spoon.
He says, “there will always be time,” tattooing T.S. Elliot to his sleeve,
“Life is very long.”
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