"time"

The clock on the wall is a millisecond faster

than the clock I have set on my wooden dresser

and each one holds some semblance of truth

but the one that is correct is the relative one-

time is the way that those of Earth

turn a complex process into something

linear,

time is an embarrassment and time is the truest falsity

and while space can be measured

time is indefinite, ambiguous, arbitrary

so instead I will go down to the garden

and spend centuries wandering the footstones

and sipping tea

while telling the children of the future

to be wary

of the entity in the mask,

the one that claims to rule our lives.