Every futurist is a fraud! Set as much store in the fortune teller as the futurist. Both peddle the same counterfeit currency: counterfactuals. Futures, possible worlds, and other Messiah… Listen carefully for their baseless certainties! I am grateful these would-be oracles make it easier to find them out. Only now is real. Yet only falsities…
Demiurge
i am
the difference
between the metronome
and the clock. i acknowledge no
deadline
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there is no time
only timing
there is no mind
only minding
there is no wind
only winding
there is no spiral
spiralling
now is neither
sometimes
nor always
nor never
nor now
memory is Past
imagination, Future
and measuring: Now
I bud off
into another I
whomb follows non-phantoms
moving outside
Saturday’s
reflection decrescendos and
acting on the nowbeat
snow forms
I bud off
into patient I
watching the reality rain
at nightside
Tomorrow’s
shadow rectangles
into loud, tumbling
possibles and
I bud off
into identical I
watching the barley fall
the thrill of the scythe
I stare
At one minute
Becoming a new one
Do you play by your own rules, time?
I glare
I ask
Do you slow when I’m not looking?
And minute on minute
Unblinkingly
Time nods
“Not today.”
standing outside
when streetlights
turn on, it was
beautiful all
along outside,
where i could
have had a day –
maybe died –
and yet if fate
is a real thing,
there are moments
where you are
invincible where-
ever you breathe
loneli-
is waiting eve-
though seasons rive like scal-
acriss-cross our touch memori-
for cont-
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