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Happening

                                                                  

Just one day into Paris,

We can no longer say

That we're going to have a great time,

Because it's already happening;

Indeed, it's been happening

Since before we stepped off the train;

It started even before London,

Months ago,

Back in the States,

Whenever we'd let our fantasies

Get the better of our fancies.

 

Here in the Tuileries, right this now,

Kissing between bites

Of our green-red-and-white salads,

Thinking how those happenings

Have begun to happen,

We realize how "happening"

Is its own perpetual present,

A time-sea

Flowing backward, future-ward,

Simultaneously,

Happening, happening, happening.

 

 

 

 

 

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