Working under the assumption
things can’t possibly have taken
place as long ago as they are
like that song on the radio basic
arithmetic dictates occurred half
a century ago until we heard it
because somehow we missed
all the intervening years moments
as lost as long as that one endures
because experienced just a second
ago who is to say we are the ones
who live life as it is lived not the clock
that is always two faced one hand
moves much slower than the other
my face resembles my youth just
as much as my aged father did
now I can’t count how many faces
I see in my child at every age there
seem so many even as we count
on less than one hand the years
that pass asking where did they go
where do we go now
Joshua Keiter 