Clockwork

 

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day," reads the old saw. But there are brief remissions where time seems to slow down and you don’t feel like a rat on treadmill. Quotidian reality is a double whammy. You're getting nowhere with a built in loss factor. In fact if you are loss averse life isn’t for you. But oases can be found in the most unexpected places. Go to one of those malls in the middle of nowhere and enter the CVS whose stores are made from a template, all with similar footprints. Your past melds with the present and suddenly you are not living in the wreckage of your future. Whoever thought you’d quote Eliot in a real wasteland? "Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future..." (Burnt Norton) The chains that link are the same ones that bind. 

read "Luggage Tags" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and read "The El" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn