{"id":14706,"date":"2015-01-12T02:44:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T02:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-swear-to-every-heaven-ever-imagined-if-i-hear\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T02:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T02:44:44","slug":"i-swear-to-every-heaven-ever-imagined-if-i-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-swear-to-every-heaven-ever-imagined-if-i-hear\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I swear to every heaven ever imagined,<br \/>if I hear one more dead-eyed hipster<br \/>tell me that art is dead, I will personally summon Shakespeare <br \/>from the grave so he can tell them every reason<br \/>why he wishes he were born in a time where <br \/>he could have a damn Gmail account. <br \/>The day after I taught my mother <br \/>how to send pictures over Iphone she texted <br \/>me a blurry image of our cocker spaniel ten times in a row.<br \/>Don\u2019t you dare try to tell me that that is not beautiful.<br \/>But whatever, go ahead and choose to stay in<br \/>your backwards-hoping-all-inclusive club<br \/>while the rest of us fall in love over Skype.<br \/>Send angry letters to state representatives, <br \/>as we record the years first sunrise so <br \/>we can remember what beginning feels like when <br \/>we are inches away from the trigger. <br \/>Lock yourself away in your Antoinette castle<br \/>while eat cake and tweet to the whole universe that we did. <br \/>Hashtag you\u2019re a pretentious ass hole.<br \/>Van Gogh would have taken 20 selflies a day. <br \/>Sylvia Plath would have texted her lovers <br \/>nothing but heart eyed emojis when she ran out of words.<br \/>Andy Warhol would have had the worlds weirdest Vine account, <br \/>and we all would have checked it every morning while we<br \/>Snap Chat our coffee orders to the people <br \/>we wish were pressed against our lips instead of lattes. <br \/>This life is spilling over with 85 year olds <br \/>rewatching JFK\u2019s assassination and <br \/>7 year olds teaching themselves guitar over Youtube videos. <br \/>Never again do I have to be afraid of forgetting<br \/>what my fathers voice sounds like. <br \/>No longer must we sneak into our families phonebook<br \/>to look up an eating disorder hotline for our best friend.<br \/>No more must I wonder what people in Australia sound like <br \/>or how grasshoppers procreate. <br \/>I will gleefully continue to take pictures of tulips<br \/>in public parks on my cellphone <br \/>and you will continue to scoff and that is okay. <br \/>But I hope, I pray, that one day you will realize how blessed <br \/>you are to be alive in a moment where you can google search<br \/>how to say I love you in 164 different languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>&ldquo;Art is a Facebook status about your winter break&rdquo;, B.E.Fitzgerald (via <a href=\"http:\/\/varanine.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">varanine<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear to every heaven ever imagined,if I hear one more dead-eyed hipstertell me that art is dead, I will personally summon Shakespeare from the grave so he can tell them every reasonwhy he wishes he were born in a time where he could have a damn Gmail account. 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