A note we never play anymore

You know, I never went to New York. Never even visited. I don’t know why I didn’t. I remember watching Sesame Street when I was little, and I liked how people would just sit on their steps and talk to each other in front of these nice and neat and square buildings. And all they had to do was cross the street or go next door to talk to each other.

Then I went to school, got a job, you know, you get busy. And it’s …

Who was it who said, uh, “even if life is forever, each moment of it is a miracle?” I think that’s just something we tell ourselves. We’re just ordinary and forever, I think. There’s a leveling out that happens if you live forever and ever without anything to lose.

New York was probably just one more place with a lot of buildings. But I missed seeing it, that’s a thing I lost. That’s one of the only things I’ve ever lost. Thinking about that kind of gets me right in the heart. Like a little xylophone hammer is, you know, just hits it. … It’s a note we never play anymore.

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