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At 7:00 pm

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                There’ve been poems going around
                                    with times for their names;
 
                                                and it made me wonder out loud
                        [and a bit more than little]
                                                of what I thought about
 
                                                                        at 7:00 pm.
 
 
                                    i.          [I have a photo of a man
                                                            stuck as a boy;
                                                            as I will always be the girl
                                                            sipping hibiscus tea
                                                            then calling myself a vampire.
 
                        I think {I’m sure} we’ve forgotten each other.
 
                                    And it’s blundering that I had half my words at the ready
                                                    to be about him.
 
                                                                                    Time check: 7:12 pm.
 
 
                                    ii.         If things are going
                                                twice as fast as they are,
                                                                        maybe thrice-
                                                could they go even more
                                                            fast-paced?
 
                                                I’m kind of looking forward to that.
                                                            Not at keeping track,
                                                            but at watching myself
                                                                                    devoured.
 
                                                                        {What colors would I give out?}
 
 
                                    iii.        My best friend must be tinkering
                                                            with the sound ‘confused.’
                                                            If you add us up together
                                                            you’d end up with more differences
                                                                        than sums.
 
                        That’s how broken you get when you grow up.
 
 
                                    iv.        There’s no sleeping for atrophy;
                                                            the way we don’t have reverse phases.
                                                            Time machines have never been more
                                                                        metaphorical-
                                                            but if I write more in this stanza,
                                                            it’d come up a cliché
 
                                    and I want this daughter christened poiesis.
 
                       
                                    v.         god, semi-colons make everything
                                                            appear softer;
                                                                        albeit temporarily.
 
                        Something incomplete
                                                and random
 
                                                                                    at 7:59 pm.
 
 
                                    vi.        But then I’m always
                                                            less than a hundred percent
                                                                        {and evaporated}
                                                            at any time of day.
 
 
 
vii.
           
 
                                            Had I gone and spun this
                                                                at 6:55,
 
                                                                        would I have been suspended

         
                                            in that five minutes of leeway?
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You have no idea how much I love this.