Millennia

Pilippett sang: "Inert as a rock, I sit

But why did I think rocks were inert?

They are changing, slowly, millennium by millennium

Why can't animals and plants also be part of geological time?"

Why the need to rush and be rushed?

Confucius, You Amuse Me

Confucius, you amuse me with your outward diffidence,

When you said only the heavens truly understood you,

That really no one around you knew you well.

What cheerful desolation: why not choose the whole universe over a mediocre world?

If you had felt as if your life had been a failure, Confucius,

That is why your words still continue to make music in our ears, even today.

Still a petty world, but the skies have never been so immense.