Conversations With Time

Three thousand ginger bread cookies On a purple path to shade Twisted Time Diagonally Elusively Disfiguring Reality Green was Blue Blue was Happy Happy was Sneezy And the other Six dwarves never showed They didn't believe in fairy tales Time jumped out the window To see if it could fly And found out literarily That Time does not fly It Bends and Twists, Manipulates Sometimes it even Backflips But Time is different for everyone "We see what we want to see," Time whispers in my ear. "I see a girl in a coconut bra," I say. "She's not ready to see you yet," says Time. "But Why?" I ask. "The answer will not make you any happier." Time insists. "No question or answer ever will." For some reason I trust Time's transdimensional perspective "Then can we stay in this moment forever?" I ask Time. "We only believe what we want to believe," Time says before Nature and Gravity right Themselves Causing Motion and Misery and Noise to hurl itself back into my lap I hear the clock ticking And cannot believe that for one moment Time stopped By: Joseph DeMarco