What is time? If nobody asks me, I know; but if I were desirous to explain it to one that should ask me, plainly I know not.
– Augustine of Hippo
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The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
— Rollo May, in Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
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All sober under liquid lights
You grind harsh memories
Behind a mirthless smile
Dawn will be born
Among splinters
Of shattered hopes
You stroke
My shaking limbs
In the shadows
The day is over
So scary behind the noise
I dance with dank flames
Of stoplights and neon signs
So stick
To your tough
Emotional diet
Of dry tears
And stale grudges
While feasting on hard feelings
You sense a rabid rage within
A modicum of effort:
Can you hear it?
The stink will die
So sexy beneath the slime
You dream of peaceful chimes
About the air
The very day
Will come again
Tired
Cold
And luminous
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This is Herbie Hancock live in 1975:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hmVHhH96es&feature=related
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Just for the sheer retro weirdness of it, here’s
Stella - Pourquoi pas moi? (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqItgyEGxtY
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Peter Bies © 2010
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