Sadie - 2021 - 7/10

That’s Sadie above right, with her boyfriend’s analyst, left.
In the middle, her ex. Actually, he’s dead.
Also on the scene is her young boyfriend. Much younger boyfriend.
And her uncle, the only one who really loved her. He’s dead, too.
Sadie has issues. She is angry, toxic, with a long list.
“… I hate everybody younger than me.
“I hate the lockdown. I hate masks.
“I hate that everyone has to have an effing opinion about everything these days.
“I hate that everyone’s so easily effing offended.
“I hate Netflix and all the endless effing channels now.
“I hate “the new normal”. I miss the old normal.
“I miss the old days. I can’t even believe I’m calling them that.
“Doesn’t feel that long ago - the '90s, the '80s, the '70s.
“I miss Van Halen and Def Leppard.
“I miss having a slim waist.
“I miss Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, cos even though they were c++s, at least it felt like they were grown-ups and they knew what they were doing, even if what they were doing was s++t.
“I miss my mother.
“I hate that I’ve inherited her sickening addiction to nostalgia…”
By turns savagely funny, then desperately sad.