counterclockwise
raze all days are arguments
between the persistent past
and the fugitive present.

they parse out their poison piecemeal,
too stubborn to acknowledge
the limits of their insight
and predictive powers.

if time is a circle,
we're all locked
in its dull embrace,
trying to fight our way free
with fistfuls of stolen seconds
and whatever words
our mouths can carry.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from