"Madonna of the Chair" by Mary Jo Bang| The Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161711/madonna-of-the-chair
And then I remembered when I read this...
'In the spring of 1984, a woman in her early thirties said to me: ' You don't understand this time town because you're an outsider. You don't know what it was like here twenty years ago. That's what we want; that's what we have to get back to.'"
~ Kathleen Norris
"Gatsby on the Plains"
Page 45 in "Dakota"
"Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108680.Dakota
Imagining people all the way back to Raphael's time saying, "You don't get it. XX years ago, things were so much better..."
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