Work in Progress

 Work in Progress

Time has just gone its own way

A great deal that follows this 

Was not planned for

Is still not expected to stay

It was still in the can so they say

This physical system of wires and bones

Mechanisms of movement and coolness

Does seem to change little day by day

When suddenly it declines those same

Day by day with discontinuities hour by hour

Where yesterday there were letters and words

Vowels and consonants of safety and constraint

Today there are gaps of millennia lesser extremes of heat

Your face goes with an ancestor’s name

Bones belong to creatures long resisting or extinct.

Memes and narratives shifting in space

Rates of change exchanging their pace

With elements like condiments of Legos

Chips and codes translating thoughts into being

Discovering that everything has feelings.

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