Regimen

I watch it work
and am made new.|
I watch it fall
apart, and doubt
I could remember
what I need to do
to make me forget
this isn’t the end.
I watch the digits
slide into place
on the clock:
that’s how 
the minutes go
—by increments,
forever and
again.

 

 

 

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