on music, memory, and emotion

there are those songs that
stick with you, define
and describe a certain
time in your life. i can
remember hearing nirvana
for the first time,
an explosion of angst
that gave shape and voice
to everything i felt inside
but couldn’t say. i loved
each new album, but in the
end their songs were
overplayed and lost their
shine, right before kurt
cobain died. it was
a shock. i remember