If you spend
a minute to think
more about it,
no minute
is ever the last
minute, since
there's always
another minute
waiting behind it.
Every last note
in the scale leads back
to the tonic.
So what if
the fate of this
planet is definite?
time is still
infinite; new ticks
will kick old ticks
off the clocks
for the rest of it.
Even the last moment
of your life
is not the end of it:
what you think
of as "terminal"
is really just
penultimate.
