편집장의 말
Editor in Chief Letter
;-)
Adulthood
Falls right over
Young heads
Like a hood
Like a noose.
And what terrible connotations 'noose' has! I don't think adulthood fatal, nor
do I see it as some form of contagious dullness. Frankly, I didn't know what to
think of it. As I was reading the poems and the short stories and the essays
submitted for this issue, I felt that the perplexity was not unique- many felt
adulthood to be an enigma. Some portrayed it as a faraway sparkle, fiery and
all-consuming, others as an eventual monstrosity, while others merely whisper
the timely truth of the spiderman quote- 'With great power, comes great
responsibility'. Adulthood is the missing hand of Captain Hook, the theft of
virginal maiden names, the solitude embedded like a spine in aging bodies,
the dreary consummation of worksafe lives. It is all these things and so much
more, the perplexed echoes of fictional (or sub-fictional) sentences seemed
to tell me. I think what these works tell us is that we are all hermaphrodite of
ages- the child and the