You move fast oh so fast
gum chomping hair swishing blip blip blip
grocery store items whizzing past your counter
you talk a mile a minute no room for idle time
you nudge you prod with badger eyes you deliver
a glare for pausing a moment to consider
what it would take for all of these movements to
coalesce in space replacing all our physical needs with
a single push of a button. No time for desire no time
to recall the memory of yesterday, lying sullen under
the boughs of the mulberry tree watching fat purple berries drop
onto sodden earth, a rebirth of sorts but no matter now,
how it is that we have evolved in time.
You walk faster and faster. I will never know where you
end up for I will always be all the further behind. Don’t mind
me.Copyright 2008 Maia Twedt
