{"sf1_id":1182298,"sf2_id":"JewjKVJ1","title":"*poem* Just...now","author":"Glycanthrope","words":270,"posted_at":"2017-05-19T23:07:00.000Z","tags":["Experimental","Free-Form","No-Yiff","Poem","Poetry","SFW","time"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1182298-poem-just-now","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/JewjKVJ1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/36/12/3612de3a-41a3-442b-bc6b-b1a4ad40c0ac","description":"#13 of Poetry\n\n\"Live in the NOW,\" they say.\n\"Now\" Is the only singularity you can occupy.\nIt passes by and becomes something else\nbefore you even have the time to describe it\nBut what if \"now\" was the only thing that was?\nwith no future to fear\nand no past to mull over\nor grow nostalgic about ?\nHere's a poem about a never-ending\n\"now\", and the poet's duty of catching\nwhat is uncatchable.","content":"THIS POEM HAS THE PROPERTIES\n\nEXISTENCE WOULD HAVE\n\nIF DEATH HAD NOT EXISTED\n\nIF TIME ARRIVED AND DIDN'T PASS\n\nLIKE A LIQUID, IT WOULD OCCUPY ALL\n\nEVERY DIFFERENCE WOULD EXIST\n\nAND CARRY ON AS TRUTH\n\nALL OPPOSITES COLLAPSE\n\nAND EVERY EXCEPTION BECOME THE RULE.\n\nANYTHING WOULD HAPPEN\n\nJUST A MOMENT AGO\n\nAND SPIRAL INTO REPETITION\n\nOF EXACTLY THE SAME VALUE AND VOLUME\n\nAS THE EVENT THAT TOOK PLACE\n\nJUST...\n\nNOW\n\nSET LOOSE WITHOUT DIFFERENCES ONTO THIS UNENDING PLANE\n\nWE STAND POWERLESS\n\nAGAINST THE PRESENT AND ITS REPETITIONS\n\nEXCEPT BY GIVING IT NAMES\n\nTHAT (IN TURN) SWALLOW IT.\n\nTHE WORDS WOULD NOT EXPLORE THEIR OBJECTS OR MEANING\n\nAND NEVER GAIN SOMETHING NEW THROUGH THIS\n\nTHE LANGUAGE WOULD LOSE ITS DUALITY\n\nSYNTAX LOSE ITS ALTERNATIVE\n\nTHROUGH USAGE, THE LANGUAGE WOULD SOON BE FULFILLED\n\nBUT ALWAYS AND ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SENTENCE.\n\nANY WORK WOULD DECONSTRUCT ITS OWN PRODUCT\n\nAND DECONSTRUCTION BECOME THE NEW.\n\nANY PRODUCTION OF RELEVANCE WOULD BECOME AN IMPOSSIBILITY\n\nWHEN EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS NOVEL\n\nBUT LACKING REFERENCES\n\nAND HAVING NO BACKGROUND TO SPEAK OF\n\nNOT EVEN REPETITION WOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS SUCH.\n\nMEMORY WOULD NOT EXIST\n\nAND WE WOULD BE FORCED TO REPEAT BEGINNINGS\n\nAND ENDS\n\nFOR ONE NEVER ARRIVING ETERNITY\n\nWITH NO WAY OF GROWING TIRED, OLD OR DYING\n\nFOR WHEN TIME ONLY ARRIVES AND ARRIVES\n\nWHAT IS LEFT TO DIE FROM?\n\nIF TIME ARRIVED AND DIDN'T PASS\n\nWE COULD GREET IT WITH NON-EXISTENCE\n\nONLY EXISTENCE ISOLATES TIME\n\nAND MAKES UP FOR DIFFERENCES\n\nTHEN ESTABLISHES THE NEW.\n\nTHROUGH EXISTENCE ONLY,\n\nWE PREVENT EVERYTHING FROM DISAPPEARING INTO ITS OWN NAME,\n\nWE'RE POETS\n\nWE FIGHT TO KEEP LANGUAGE\n\nINSUFFICIENT\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1179901-poem-i-have-to-start-this-way.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1211088-poem-and-suddenly.json"}}