Post ________ Everything

a meditation on the 21st century

Geoffrey Gentry
Aug 22, 2017 · 3 min read

Post-dinner party small talk until forever
Post-internet of things
Post-Netflix and chill
Post-emoji
Post-Coachella
Post-hologram
Post-live stream
Post-3rd wave
Post-hybrid
Post-mansplain
Post-Snowden
Post-out in the desert and under the stars
Post-the Sean Spicer SNL joke that got old
Post-cardio
Post-hardcore
Post-The Wire
Post-word
Post-superhero
Post-dance like no one’s watching
Post-colonial
Post-jazz
Post-documentary
Post-heart attack ack ack ack ack
Post-Billy Joel
Post-vegan
Post-mortem
Post-tech
Post-“bro bro bro did you watch the League this week?”
Post-architecture
Post-bicycle
Post-neighborhood
Post-poem
Post-college
Post-marriage
Post-gentrification
Post-LAN party
Post-love is forever
Post-Malone
Post-xanax
Post-American
Post-looking at sunsets
Post-poet laureates
Post-progress
Post-symbols
Post-binge watch and don’t leave the apartment
Post-democracy
Post-Uber
Post-inter-ballistic missiles
Post-shared economy
Post-french fry
Post-DMX
Post-MTV
Post-the thing in your chest you’re convinced is cancer
Post-operation
Post-Greatest Generation
Post-karaoke to that one Chainsmokers song
Post-Vietnam
Post-9/11
Post-global warming
Post-anxiety
Post-porn
Post-apocalypse
Post-80’s buddy cop movies
Post-surveillance state
Post-spectacles
Post-Trump and Putin making out on billboards around Los Angeles
Post-soul cycle
Post-brunch
Post-weird sex stuff
Post-protest
Post-ceremony
Post-believing what our parents believed
Post-fireworks
Post-worship
Post-universalism
Post-yoga
Post-harmony
Post-war
Post-hooking up in the dark part of the parking lot
Post-fantasy football
Post-friendship
Post-national parks
Post-Sweet Home Alabama and NASCAR
Post-pork belly on everything
Post-LebronvsJordan
Post-meditation
Post-baseball
Post-evangelical
Post-psalm
Post-splitting the check
Post-lament
Post-constellation
Post-NASA
Post-surf
Post-the ocean is a vast expanse and I am very small
Post-the great American novel
Post-whiskey sours/last call
Post-have you read On the Road?
Post-San Francisco as the new New York
Post-pacific
Post-black hole
Post-astrology as a thing your ex talks about
Post-nebula
Post-Hamilton is so good and did you get tickets
Post-how we talk about God
Post-environment
Post-Matt Damon in space
Post-summer breeze makes you feel fine
Post-facial hair
Post-fixie
Post-tattoo
Post-retina scan
Post-circle pit
Post-broken nose at the VFW hall
Post-urban gardening
Post-atomic
Post-mixtape
Post-standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
Post-patriot act
Post-Kanye
Post-Meme
Post-friendzone
Post-beach vibes
Post-hashtag
Post-fruit stand on the side of the road
Post-google
Post-Tupac and what happened and how will we now live
Post-exceptional
Post-Bannon’s weird skin thing
Post-up in the paint
Post-you and me at the center of everything
Post-slowdance
Post-Border Patrol
Post-sustainability
Post-WiFi
Post-participle
Post-Food truck
Post-people claiming they read the Steve Jobs biography
Post-currency
Post-face to face
Post-sleep
Post-‘wake me up when September ends’
Post-information
Post-eclipse
Post-bots are the future
Post-the quiet dark opening up inside that terrifies you
Post-acne
Post-death
Post-Harry Potter fan fiction
Post-connection
Post-national
Post-the things we give to show how we are loved and want to love
Post-i’m not sure now how any of us now leave this thing unharmed

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Geoffrey Gentry

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Head Writer & Editor at AlabasterCo | Freelance Writer & Editor | Connect: https://www.geoffgentry.me

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