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the digital clock shouted

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a power outage had rendered it incapable of going on without intervention

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re-set me!

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I guess that in some Buddhist-ish sort of way, it was pretty true

It’s always, only, now

There is not, and cannot be, then

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even a broken clock is right

twice a day

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a blinking clock is right

always

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but now

don’t know how or when It started

if or when It will stop

whatever It, this, life, world, is

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wake up to cat grooming herself

in “real-life” it could be 1:30, could be 5

very dark, very quiet,

all is dark and quiet except my brain

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this is the only time

I don’t know what time it is

after awakening, before there are any markers

like a paper delivery, or the guy across the street starting up the truck…

school bells, church bells

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once there’s that marker, I can do the math

and come up with

the time

no matter what clock tells me

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but before that, after dreaming, or less memorable, just sleep-

limbo, little clue

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so the brain is flying

thoughts are all that exist

with no time,

no space

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selective interpretations of

how I’ve gotten here-

the bad choices, the bad breaks, of course

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What have I done?

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what to do

“next”

when the day starts

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when the world joins me

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how to fix my little problems

how to fix the world’s big ones

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thoughts run into feelings

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feelings into emotions

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emotions back into feelings

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the mind wanders, travels back again

knowing

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this isn’t the best time to “figure it all out”

yet

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being a mind,

that’s what it does

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or tries to do

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