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.
08/14/11 - (3)
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