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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

968: The Long Goodbye

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Arts, Performing Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is The Long Goodbye by Diana Whitney.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem spotlights a multigenerational family, where the daily demands of domestic and long-term care are challenging enough, but at the center is the familial promise of unconditional love.”


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Micah, we're taking a break this week, so we're running some of our favorite

0:04.9

episodes from this season so far.

0:07.0

We'll be back on October 9th with a new episodes.

0:16.6

I'm Major Jackson, and this is the Slowdown.

0:24.2

Just out of college, I was featured in an article written by the journalist, Nicholas

0:36.5

Lehman.

0:38.1

During the interview, one of the editors of the article at the Atlantic back channel to

0:43.0

announce he and some friends were starting a new magazine about our age demographic and

0:49.7

asked if I would look over the perspectives more pointedly, they asked, would I name

0:57.0

the magazine?

0:59.3

Can you imagine naming a whole generation or imagine generation X known by another label?

1:08.2

With all the animus articulated, joked, and meamed about between the generations, I've

1:14.5

abandoned the terms Gen Z, Gen X, Baby Boomers, and Millennials.

1:21.6

I know these are primarily marketing categories created to sell products or content, but like

1:29.2

many of the simplistic labels we've affixed to humans, they feel grossly reductive and

1:36.0

unnecessarily hostile.

1:38.8

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.

1:43.1

Invented, there are differences yoked and amplified by time, but the takedowns and dismissals

1:50.6

feel like a blood sport.

1:53.3

We are far more nuanced in our actions and beliefs.

1:58.2

Who cares if some people prefer texting?

2:01.9

Others are apolitical, or have an overinflated sense of their accomplishments.

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