Good riddance to 2009, and the entire decade past.

Good riddance to 2009, and the entire decade past.

Good riddance to 2000, the year we suffered our first Shock to the System when The Supreme Court placed a Village Idiot in The White House.

Good riddance to the American Hysteria that re-elected him in 2004.

Good riddance to 2001, where in the fall of the year, we fell into a seemingly irreversible catatonic state.

Good riddance to the war without end that began in Iraq in 2003, and has since been franchised.

Good riddance to the tea-baggers and the birthers of 2009, who for years cheered on W. as he created The Waste Land in which we now live, but who now harbor no Faith in an American President who admirably seeks to clean up the mess he left behind.

Good riddance to bad habits; like willing yourself to believe there exists an Alternate History where Gore rightfully served his term, and we were spared the horror that was the 00’s.

Good Riddance…

Alas, we can only hope that a few of us are able to exhume a few beautiful moments out the ugly past; maybe some day we’ll be able to look back at this decade and only remember the good things that may have happened.

Somehow maybe we can still feel a certain sentimentality that alludes those mired in the muck and heartache; Thus, we have our generation's Auld Lang Syne, Green Day's ironic ode to days gone by, Good Riddance:

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while

And in the end, one can’t help but wonder if there’s no where else for us to go but up; as John Lennon’s famous adjunct to McCartney’s optimism so rightly stated (in brackets):

I've got to admit it's getting better
A little better all the time (It can't get no worse)