Monday, March 6, 2017

The time is Late


The world had changed overnight,
overdays-
She thought
She was
Progressing until then
when all the standing people were dumbstruck,
horrified by what had happened here.
She remembered an Eastern way of saying it right,
“May you live in an interesting time”
She heard a Western man in shock say,
“I’ve seen a’lotta things, but I ain’t never seen nuthin’ like this,”
She remembered and could not understand
the meaning.
The world had changed and
Made no sense of interesting
Times under night.


Painting by Titian, Knight of Malta with a clock (1550) in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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