THIS WORLD IS NOT A CLOCK

This world is not a clock.
             Did you think it was?
      Ignore the ticking that's growing
  louder. It can't be wound
back. A slow clock can be pulled
         to time. A fast one, brought up
    short. But a world is large. It keeps
         spinning, and this model has
no reverse gear. What's lost is lost forever in
           cold deep space. And not even  
                             a second can be retrieved on
                       the path leading from September 10.


October 2001

 



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