Footnote: Chronometrix, 1

All my mother's life,
she planned according to clocks;
deeply demented,
she still does; but, clockbound,
she never, truly, has lived.

 

 

Kyakuchuu

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Loved this! An expression of

Loved this! An expression of wasting your life on the immaterial. Things like time, and money, created constructs that shallow the mind and damn the soul.

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Thanks again

I really appreciate your comments. This poem is taken from real life, from the rather sour relationship I have had with my mother since my teen years. Although she has severe alzenheimers disease now, she is still obsessed with clock time.


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