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Time Thief (Free verse) by Dovina

Procrastination steals no time, not like wives’ tales say. Punctuality’s to blame. Early arrival wastes time waiting. Late comers get more sleep, stay up later, watch cartoons, draw defecations, defacing some Islamic patriarch. If time is short, slow down; if plentiful, speed. In slowness, few mistakes. In speed, abundant blunders. Fixing errors kills your time. People who’ve come as far as I don’t slow down so much to rest as to speed to where they’re going, having learned along the way, mistakes are the thieves of time.

zodiac 30-Mar-06/1:48 PM
The weird half-rhymes in the first stanza are good. The repetition of "time" at the ends of lines is not. Nor is the digression about Islamic cartoonists. The last stanza's tidy, didactic, silly, Benjamin Franklinesque, and unnecessary if you'd done your job in the first four stanzas.




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