Time Leapt

I vaguely remember arguing with an accountant
(or mathematician)
about reconciling the Years End with the Leap Second
(or loss carry overs and off-setting capital Gains)
which of course led onto greener pastures,
futures, and master plans
such as the old erratic Julian calendar,
disappearing days, the value of time;
since time is money, paid hourly,
benefits and salaries
traded for living richly-

But, I bet his figures are better than
all my Reckons added up, The ante:
don't gamble if you do not count
on losing.

We've agreed to disagree
semantically about 'Balance'
and whose 'books' are better,
whose red-what-
Whether time matters more
for some
time we've known is not a matter
of physically covering ones assets,
or stock splits-

And yet, this hiccup, jump,
an algorithmic appliance,
rounding off and ballpark-
GAP
brought us back around to black holes
(and stellar bureaucracy)
being the center of each universe,
resistance, gravity, monogamy, and
uneven solutions such as slices of pi
or other dark matters where time is converted
instantaneously beyond what we can conceive
in a mind, in a hand, in a life
time-any-thing-more
slips through the cracks,
between fingertips, spills out, tells
all to watch, wait, rely, count on,
change, coinage, patronage and no matter what-
we were never Here too long to be wrong.

Still, I will
deny any transpositional errors or leaping
to conclusions. Definitively:
broken down seconds were
never more
than
firsts.

All accounts have been settled.
The time is Now.


Painting by Nicolas-André Monsiau (c. 1800) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Wait a second

Wait a second
What just happened here?
You may not have noticed,
it was swept under the rug
hidden in the haystack
watching from under the bed.
Did you hear what They said?
I mean a leap second doesn't happen
every old year.
Or even every other
like Leap Year, Dear.
This is a new one.
Time is starting to unravel,
the loose ends, the frayed edges
know
Time is just a new reality show.

You know
when Time goes slow
or quickly fly's by,
we wonder why
this strange change
hidden in
a phenomenon of sixty seconds
and a hundred and twenty firsts
All in a Day,
we say.

We gained a whole second
and I thought we exercised
our written right
left alone to pursue
our very own happiness;
choosing what to do
with our Life
made up
of
years lived
To Be
erat
vici
eternally
preserved
for all Time.

Since the year 1972
we found
twenty-six
second ticks
Just think
in 2060
we'll have a whole
minute
however
I won't be here
then
again
repeating
the same mistakes
since Time
hit the brakes
for a second
stalling
sixty and six-hundredths
fractions
at any given
Time.

However,
I never
want to waste
or not savour the taste
of a life lived Now
and How
every fraction
of a second
counts
amounts
to more
these days.
I think I'll just
ignore
this ruse
about trusty Time
that's only for
counting down
until our Time is up.



Image of Nurse Nellie Lampton, 1919, relaxing in Townsville, California,[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.