Sunday, May 17, 2026

poem

 Time Machine 

When the time machine is invented

Everyone will want to have one

Some will live entirely in the past

While others keep bouncing further

And further into the future


I went back and forth for a while 

But none of it ever made any sense

Without at least a few days in the present

To think about it. Now I stay right where I am.

Woven to the fabric of someone else’s fate


So many men abuse this technology

They become the smoothest player 

Who ever existed or the ballsiest short

Stack who ever called a bet.

Every success story is now under suspicion 


Listen, I’m one of those people too.

I just decided to go in a different direction

This moment right here is a bridge 

To a future that dissolves the past.

Pay attention. Love itself is at stake 


I have this strange certainty that when I’m dead

You’ll be able to feel me in your actual body

Tickling your feet or jabbing my fingers in your ribs,

Sort of fake kneeing your ass from behind in the bathroom.

Instead of reckoning with that you’ll just take another tylenol.


Well, here we are again

By now we’ve done this a thousand times

And I have a good feeling about tonight 

Long ago we agreed to finally get it all right 

I love you. Then, now, tomorrow.


5/17/26

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