How To Live Forever
I think the way to keep time's march at bay,
is to blank out
all that has occurred this past thirty years,
or there about.
Only read books you've read before, the same
for music too,
all they write and play these days is rubbish
what's worse, it's new.
So live your life for nothing, you'll find time
will start to slow,
when a day is but a snowflake on last
night's field of snow.
About this poem
The way to make time pass more slowly is to make each day the same. That was the starting premise for this poem. Though I doubt it works. There is a line in a song by Leonard Cohen that was also in my mind: "You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record" (Famous Blue Raincoat)
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