John Lennon hasn’t made me cry in freaking ages. Well, not John Lennon per se, but rather the lack thereof. Freaks me out how one can care about complete strangers so deeply, strangers afflicted with this bizarre phenomena aka fame. Then dies. Shot dead by a freak. So after reeling with pain and sorrow for years, not listening to any Lennon without choking up, time passes and as all things must pass, the pain goes away and Lennon becomes another human being with all the usual human characteristics and afflictions, I can listen again, dissect, criticize, enjoy, marvel, laugh and altogether remember why I love his work so much on top of the childhood awe and joy of wild abandon The Beatles held like magic. I age past him. I am older than he was at death. I stop crying. Until today. Whoa. Listened to Nobody Told Me and Nobody Sees Me Like You Do (Yoko Ono) and, dang if it didn’t happen again.
I’m crying.