There's No Tense Like The Present

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Combing the daily for dangling participles
Waxing philosophic while civilization crumbles
Daunting, my newsfeed
(These people have degrees!)
“Who” is not objective
I’m feeling positively Elizabethan

There’s no tense like the present
I love you without condition
The future’s outta my hand

There’s such satisfaction in self-ruled perfection
Start with a blank page and a sense of direction
Teacher hands back loose-leaf sheets
Spewed from anorexic exercise books
I rework the ratio in red—objective
To calculate my exploits

There’s no tense like the present
I love you without condition
The future’s outta my hand

I met a girl fastidious and true
She never ends sentences with prepositions
Down on one knee
Future tense proposition
The future is easily inflected--
I will do, we will do

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from O Apostrophe, released December 11, 2012
Eric Spreng: music and lyrics

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O Apostrophe Kampala, Uganda

Melodic, literate, subversive. O Apostrophe is the nom de guerre of Eric Steven Spreng. Beholden to no one, Spreng follows the muses when he sees fit. A wanderer, a believer in the arts, and a high school English teacher.

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