Another Now

the noise of crickets may lead to insanity and then again their silence is deafening like people with nothing to say and when they speak garbage vomits up out of some executive tidal wave but wait ... what is Now? its an echo from a metal pipe going drip, drip, drip and an occasional sonata from a refrig er ator a round cone bright with the branch edge of lacy leaves weighed down by the light of the moon Now is outside inside Now Is Now is a part of time but which time for when is the time Now? she asked When its Now ... yes, but when was that ... Is it now or was that Then and this is Now? drip, drip, drip