A Brief History of Time Management

A Poem

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“The events that do not lie in the future or past of P are said to lie in the elsewhere of the P”.

In search of lost time
I look in the wrong places

Once I skirted the Sahara
In a bus full of Irish people
And gazed at ruins in the distance

And find it all accounted for
A ledger drawn, moment for moment

Once I stood at the edge of an ocean
And felt not the waves nor the quiet light
But the miles of distance from all I knew

I look to the elsewhere
To the time not spent, the realities not loved

Once in the city in the heat of the summer
I laughed at the clothes I’d never wear
And then sat on the pavement, dusty and content

And forget the gap between the stars and their light
Is not just between the beam and the kiss of suns long since shone