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Nunc Perpetuum


All of my life,

living for today

 

All of tomorrow,

living for tomorrow

 

None of my life,

living for yesterday

 

Lived as today

—as today was tomorrow

 

(Reading ‘The Portable Einstein,’ September, 2020)

 

“Today was tomorrow

—to all of yesterday”

 

 

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