Showing posts with label Sonic Youth. Show all posts
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Thurston, Not Thurston
When I was young I named a mouse Thurston.
Thurston was killed by my cat.
So I wanted to name my child Thurston.
I felt like if it would be a boy, it would be suitable.
But if it would be a girl, it would be really perfect.
Though kids would call the kid “Thirst’n.”
And the name would seem out of place, probably.
Everyone I knew was named “Brandon.”
When I was ten I first heard Sonic Youth.
At fifteen I learned the name, “Thurston Moore.”
At twenty I knew so many people who knew that name.
I realized I could never have “Thurston” for myself.
It was imbued with too much meaning.
I didn’t even like half their catalogue.
Thurston Moore ruins everything.
But still, when I wear a brown cardigan
or use my book embosser,
I think “Thurston.”
Like
it’s someone
I had,
loved,
and lost.
When I was young I named a mouse Thurston.
Thurston was killed by my cat.
So I wanted to name my child Thurston.
I felt like if it would be a boy, it would be suitable.
But if it would be a girl, it would be really perfect.
Though kids would call the kid “Thirst’n.”
And the name would seem out of place, probably.
Everyone I knew was named “Brandon.”
When I was ten I first heard Sonic Youth.
At fifteen I learned the name, “Thurston Moore.”
At twenty I knew so many people who knew that name.
I realized I could never have “Thurston” for myself.
It was imbued with too much meaning.
I didn’t even like half their catalogue.
Thurston Moore ruins everything.
But still, when I wear a brown cardigan
or use my book embosser,
I think “Thurston.”
Like
it’s someone
I had,
loved,
and lost.
3/18/10
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