Test of Time

Test of Time there's always more trapped between quotation marks the metal parasites resume an ancient harmony clockwise the numbers rhyme again eight ways to cheat infinity one version less tonight the little bulb above my head blinks off and on like crossing wires to watch the motor burn grounded to this bookend night at last the first condition met I had a diary as a child writing what I would do instead of what I'd done my invented future lived in a drawer 300 mostly blank pages a young boy sits at his desk the time between us breathing through an ocean of decay I don't know what to tell him or if he's even there decades snap apart like twigs in a fire I cannot start my past is filling up as my future drains away now I'm living in reverse unwriting my protected life bottom to top right to left another ending bends towards this parallel reminder