Riff Album Challenge

Vampires, Ferlinghetti, and Endings

“I am that I am”

Photo by Arun Sharma on Unsplash

I waited patiently in 2013 for Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City to drop. I didn’t know what the album would contain, but I had grown to love the band since I had listened to 2010’s Contra. And I lamented not attending a concert they had given at my older daughter’s college, Wofford College in…