Sometimes I feel as though time has stopped moving I know that it never really stops That time moves as regularly as it can But Moments linger They lag and rip and jostle Stretch out like taffy in a candy stores window on a boardwalk They have a tendency to stick around long past the expiration date I know Somewhere in the factual portion of my brain That each second is uniform One sixtieth of a minute and one thirty-six hundredth of an hour Exact concrete absolute Measured just the same As if I canβt lose everything In that same second That was At one time or another As uniform and bland as all the others.