you're too cool now

by Gerard Manogue

you’re too cool now
remember years ago
it feels like a multiverse
before reading chaucer
and foucault and howard zinn’s
people’s history of the united states
before drinking 2 buck chuck
and buying oxford shirts
and surcingle belts
pants made with 100 percent cotton
before going to the hamptons
and hamilton heights
and nantucket island
way way before poems
and progressive thinking
and a disposable income
before the need for symmetry
you don’t remember because
you’re too cool now
and this isn’t true romance
you’re not christian slater
i said too cool
not so cool

Gerard Manogue is a poet and teacher from California. He publishes his poetry in little magazines. Follow him on Twitter: @GerardManogue