Slack Time Lacks Time Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Slack Time Lacks Time



Here in and out near roundabout, hear Way
ignores straight, narrow card, finds flawed hard facts,
as each is all, all each, reach interacts
through, to, from, on infinite interplay
as cause, effect teach dreams deem night is day,
to ease time's flow whose band frees, sand subtracts
increasing reel of what it really lacks.
Confusion fusion kneeds, speeds need's delay,
rules schools of thought distraught have sought till grey,
discourse on glass half full, half empty's tacked
on city zen by banknote billfold backed,
or country bumpkin stirring curdled whey.
Mistakes may break steel lock which bars advance,
this makes hay, take real stock, hitch stars add chance.

With space-time curved, the universal flat
falls flat, dissenter from some centre point
that Euclid and/or Ptolemy appoint,
cat's whiskers once, hats raised, now rats if that,
congrats withdrawn, lines drawn, echec et mat.
For left brain thinking feelings would anoint
for right brain feelings thinking out of joint,
both arguments my lie, vain tit for tat.
Thus innings outed, bowler, bales, ball, bat
appearance superficial disappoint,
bend from seen, scene end, blending through flashpoint
into new nano actors acrobat.
Diversity evolved from RNA
whose building blocks evolved to, through the Way.

Where give is thought the opposite of take
much sloppy thinking blots mind's copybook.
When men hold 'have' has 'have not's' goals mistook
or misconstrue time's fractal pattern break,
reason turns treason which may overtake
those stating 'blessed divest', for deeper look
acknowledges most knowledge ledger book
according role-reversal status shake
to compensate for narrow ways must wake,
admit to false awareness, flow whose brook
stems from wishful thinking gobbledygook,
where void taps stream, avoids dream, traps. At stake
appears true understanding Search per se
trains mind to stray from straight line, find, perch weigh.

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(26 January 2009)
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