Listening to that album
from maybe twelve years ago
makes me think
now I can be nostalgic
for twelve years ago
about the time when
I decided everything in the past
up to that point
was all there was to be
nostalgic about and even
then I put little effort
into making new stale memories
hoping never to have
to look back
today I turned up the volume
in the car to make
the traffic more tolerable