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A moment in time
A moment of your time
A monument to time
A modicum of momentum through time
Occupied in time
A preoccupation with time
i-
i have/am/will 
moved/moving/move through time
Forever and never
For i say “i”
But that was/is/will be hard to determine
Since what construed/construes/will construe “i”?
I found myself shuttled/shuttling/will be shuttled from the chemical growbag of my mother’s womb
A precipitant precipitate, abreactive reagency, postpartum postulate
Capillaries, thew and membrane all constructed/constructs/ will be constructed from words in the dictionary
Aught but a cluster of sensory excitations
relayed/relaying/will be relayed to a central processing cortex
Which clutched/clutches/will clutch at them interpretatively,
Glossed and glommed/glossing and glomming/ will gloss and will glom impressions
And imagined/imagine/will imagine them as singularly connected/connecting/will connect
Ergo clumped/clumping/will clump them together as a self-reflexive unity 
Of self
Ergo ego
An illusory synchronicity
That imagined/imagines/will imagine it can act through time
and changed/change/will change events
As if time proceeded/proceeds/will proceed along regular intervals
As if the “i” existed/exists/will exist sequentially along an unbroken continuum 
until death and cessation
The nagging uncertainty that ate/eats/will eat at the core of this i of me
Saw/sees/will see the me reached/reaching/will reach for a pen
And wrote/writes/will write a parallel sequence with abridged/abridging/will abridge continuum
Yet that i is avowedly fictional unlike the uncertain state of the prior/current/subsequent me
Which itself was/is/will be, of course, a fiction
Set/setting/will set up a parallax ‘me’ reflective and reflexive of the i that already was/is/pushed out there as having represented/representing/ will be representing me
Stood/standing/will stand for me stood/standing/will stand the test of time
Fiction upon fiction
A fictional i viewed/viewing/will view a second fictional i at one stage removed/remove/will remove
No three-hundred and sixty degree vision was/is/will be possible
Because of single point perspective
Subjective perception subjected/subjecting/will subject itself to reflexive scrutiny
Even though neither being existed/exists/will exist
The second Being being the mark the first being had left/leaves/will leave on the earth
Even though all human marks were/are/will be buried beneath soil or were/are/will be digitised somewhere in the ether
A data set generated by another data set
Is either virtual mark any more longlasting than the other?
Both became/become/will become an evanscent smudge, proof positive that time did/does/will progress in a forward direction
Like the waves of the sea will wash/washing/washed over the beach and obliterate/ will obliterate/obliterated any impressions cast there
Entropy
A moment in time
A moment of your time
A monument to time
A modicum of momentum through time
Occupied in time

A preoccupation with time
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Published on January 15, 2015 15:40
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message 1: by Robyn McIntyre (new)

Robyn McIntyre You play very well with words and stay in time!


message 2: by Marc (new)

Marc Nash thanks Robyn


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