Eating time
what does that mean?
How can time be eaten?
How can one be sustained whether mortal or immortal
by time?
Surely time expands, goes ever irreversibly forward
as the universe... no...
...correction the universes -
flare ever-outwards
a shotgun propelling of pellets that describe an unending trajectory
an infinite, frictionless, fractionless divergence into
space.
Harper...
How could it be consumed?
Impossible!
once time has moved onwards
it no longer exists
it ceases to be
to have meaning in terms of
atoms and particles?
Harper!
Except in the mind, of course, of course, stupid, stupid -
yes, the mind
and that is personally prejudice-predicated
speeding and slowing
doubling back, over-laying, prognosticating, tangling and untangling
i n v e n t i n g
according to the individual's experience
and predetermination, surely?
Surely that is so?
For time to be eaten...
Enough! Your mind-jitter is wearying and
beside the point. You are Harper, attend
to your harping, I will attend to time.
