Childhood took ten minutes
stretched maybe to a quarter hour;
being a teenager, for what it was worth,
was over in five.
Waiting for my wife to
turn up in my life was
a bit of a haul:
all of thirty seconds.
We had children,
one two three four five
in a flash: grown, gone.
I lie dying.
I wonder.
How come life took
less than half an hour?
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