It Knocks Again, Again it Knocks

already it’s next tick, already
past tick has tocked
segues are summed
per time-infected clocks

it’s two past one
then three past two
then four past three
—opportunity?
again it knocks,
again it knocks again,
it knocks again,
again it knocks,
my skull’s a time-infested box

I’ve hardly yanked on socks
I’ve hardly seen the day begin
when soon it ends,
time mocks in blurry
overlapping frames of love and sin
fadeout fadein, fadeout,
again fadein

yet, time is cool, it rocks
you’re no less lovely now than then
good news is, with you time is sometimes

…………… still

not a terminal pox

Jim Culleny
12/26/20