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clock talk

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Clock talkTime the grammarian the dull versifier, Generalissimo of the beat of hearts and pulse of souls, Time wears thick-soled shoes, senses no pebbles on the road, no little you’s and me’s underfoot, Time the great imperturbable Walker, Time who knows only Yes and No and nothing in between, Time who talks only meticulous languages, Time the Taker…....I think it’s time to trip Time. Do you?Let’s trip Time with the passion of a woman and a man, the tangled fingertips and mouths, flesh in flesh, sharp smells of love, light of laughter heard by two, tossing decades away within the bodies’ wet dark tides……Let us trip Time with the love of all little things, all transients, all imperfections, all species ebbing and flowing, all green children, all dumb insensate legless things, all moons and planets, all setting suns caught on the tongue of Time…….Let us trip TimeIn each other’s vastly imperfect arms……. Do this in the light    and Time       will fall. Written October 20th, 2001 © on Oct 20 2001 08:07 AM PST   0 • 10

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"Clock talkTime the grammarian the dull versifier, Generalissimo of the beat of hearts and pulse of souls, Time wears thick-soled shoes, senses no pebbles on the road, no little you’s and me’s underfoot, Time the great imperturbable Walker, Time who knows only Yes and No and nothing in between, Time who talks only meticulous languages, Time the Taker…....I think it’s time to trip Time. Do you?Let’s trip Time with the passion of a woman and a man, the tangled fingertips and mouths, flesh in flesh, sharp smells of love, light of laughter heard by two, tossing decades away within the bodies’ wet dark tides……Let us trip Time with the love of all little things, all transients, all imperfections, all species ebbing and flowing, all green children, all dumb insensate legless things, all moons and planets, all setting suns caught on the tongue of Time…….Let us trip TimeIn each other’s vastly imperfect arms……. Do this in the light    and Time       will fall...."

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