time and not again

a breath into the weekend
I am thinking
for those approximate
to 9 to 5
Monday
through Friday
too

or are you one of those
who does not stop
either by
someone else’s will
or
your own compelling

which
is not
to say you’re wrong

we do
have work
to do

and I served in this way
too
until the first
of heart attacks

then tried to do things differently
and
my supervisor didn’t like it
so I left

and found
the world isn’t ready
for slower people
any
sort
I’m afraid

which is
too bad
because
24
4
365
(366)
is what we get
on Earth
and for our
earthly lives

and how these change so much
through circumstances
though not
to lengthen measures
but
sadly
to truncate

and only in that way
does mortal time
change

sigh
life on Mars
might go differently
or
more likely
could we go like Albert Einstein
over the bridge
FTL-fashion then
return
to find the world futurely changed

and yet again
as the travelers our time
has not
changed a
classic jot

so time is time
and how
to spend it
inside
human parameters

and not that
everything’s our choice
though it is in
our given
nature

and maybe we can or may
choose the time
or even
how to spend it

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photo by Oliver Hale on Unsplash