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JerryPat2
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0 posted 2011-08-01 03:01 PM


No, I have not been smoking the wacky-tobacky . . .


it's all about time
it's not about me
it's not about you
it's all about the theory of relativity
of time
it's not about love
love has spent time with me
but like heaven
it's hard to pin down
it's all about time eternal
tick-tock
it's not about the race we run
it's not about who wins that race
it's not about whether you drink
champagne from a golden slipper
or beer from a magician's hat
it's all about time
and time isn't
time isn't
deep, nor is it wide
time isn't a hole in the bottom of the sea
or a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea
no
get this straight
brothers and sisters
time isn't
we try to measure time
what we think of as time
we give it minutes and seconds and hours
days and weeks and . . .
but time isn't
time
will be here
when everybody is gone
time isn't


~ Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. ~

© Copyright 2011 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
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1 posted 2011-08-01 04:47 PM


Fantastic! Love it! Love it! Why would you put such a disclaimer on such a fine piece of work that is completely out of character for you?...are you hungry?  I am.
Lori

JerryPat2
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2 posted 2011-08-01 04:54 PM


Haha!! Hell, I don't know why, Lori. I find I'm doing and thinking a lot of weird stuff after almost a full two months (next Thursday) that I came down with the shingles. I haven't had one day that I don't hurt, some of the pain is severe, but even it they aren't, they still hurt. It's screwing up with my thinking ability.

Nope, I'm not hungry, just had a DiGorino Pizza, and I am stuffed, just like their cheese-stuffed crust.

Thanks for the good words for the poem, you are sweet.

~ Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. ~

Michael
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3 posted 2011-08-01 04:59 PM


So, wanna pass some of that whatever it is you're not smoking here?  lol  

With Time, both enemy and friend,
For on what else can I depend?
Another day yet draws me nearer
To that face I'll face in the mirror.

To me, time is a reckoning.  Of what, I have no idea... but it sounded cool didn't it?

Good write, JP

JerryPat2
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4 posted 2011-08-01 05:18 PM


Yep, cool is the word, Michael. I still maintain; time isn't. Heehee

~ Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. ~

Angel4aKing
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since 2006-09-27
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5 posted 2011-08-01 06:26 PM


I recently had a similar conversation about time myself, wondering if time would exist if people no longer existed to record it!! Interesting!!!




~~~kingsangel~~~

JerryPat2
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6 posted 2011-08-01 06:39 PM


I can only say, time isn't. Plus thank you for stopping by and commenting on the poem.

~ Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. ~

ebonygirl
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7 posted 2011-08-01 07:16 PM


"When everybody is gone time isn't"
Nice poem, cool ending, JerryPat2.
ebonygirl

JerryPat2
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8 posted 2011-08-01 07:47 PM


Much obliged, ebonygirl, I appreciate your nice comments.

~ Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. ~

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
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9 posted 2011-08-01 08:09 PM


I have spent a lot of time thinking about the enima of time, I'm glad I'm not the only one who is caught in the "time" warp.
                              Ida

JerryPat2
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10 posted 2011-08-01 08:31 PM


Yeah, Ida, it is a theme that bears thinking over, but you get lost in the haze, at least I do. Thanks for stopping by.

~ Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. ~

tuffluv66
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11 posted 2011-08-01 11:09 PM


Time is irrelevant, yet a river that's infinite.
JerryPat2
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12 posted 2011-08-02 07:40 AM


Yer got a point, tuffluv66. Thanks for stopping by.

~ Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. ~

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