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Butter Down by Kevin Wells

8/30/2008 12:44:38 AM
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Kevin Wells
(August 21st 1955 / Petersfield, Hampshire, England)
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Butter Down
 
  The comic will tell you
that timing is everything
but I think the concept is
out of our hands.
Timing can cause
the downfall of nations,
put an end to relations
and the best laid of plans;
timing can be
an opportune moment
or conversely, play to the
sum of our fears -
our being discovered
– flagrante delicto –
by someone who thought
they had known us for years

So…

Is timing used
as a dimensional toy
by beings who conjure,
align and deploy,
to aggravate and irritate
our poor human souls
to ensure that the toast is
butter-down when it falls?

Kevin Wells


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Sathyanarayana M V S (7/15/2008 11:22:00 AM)
Masterly depiction on value of time. Thanks for sharing
sathya narayana
Austen Bradford (7/8/2008 3:04:00 PM)
This is very clever I enjoy your pondering questions- I think time and Murphy's law are one in the same

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