Epigram For Those Who Hurry, 1

Right Now and Right Away, those two Right Brothers,
compel her to and fro without a pause.
The schedule that she keeps through each day smothers
her thoughts---except the swift desire for faster
performance, service, or control.  Harsh master
this dark compulsion is.  Only at death
will she have time to stop and take a breath
(as if for the first time, but really last).  Her
soul will discover, but can never tell,
inexorably slow torments in hell.

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