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Tense Changer

Author: George Gibson
Year: Future

The future arrives
in formidable tense.
A camouflaged conspirator,
morphing into the present,
and then the past.
Days pass slowly
but decades fly.

The future has its
own velocity.
Feral; it won’t
look you in the eye.

We are shaped shifters,
Lives are time-eaters and
tense-changers.
Living like life is true fiction,
dealt a hand that can lie.