Large Fierce Mammal

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A foundational part of our animal nature is a hefty dose of healthy opportunism, and it pains me to see it practiced on such an amateur level among humans these days.

So here’s a lesson.

The Hour That Never Was

By LFM

Consider now the question of what happens after death,
What phantasmagoric wonders might pursue your final breath?
The query’s fraught with blindness, really not a great to do —
The answer is, a lot of things, and none involving you.

Every stage magician’s skilled at how to draw the gaze,
And from a place you’re blind to, ways to startle and amaze.
You’ll see the start, you’ll see the end, and gasp at what’s been seen,
Unknowing it all happened in a place you’ve never been.

When you think that your attention’s here, yet really over there,
It’s observing in an interval completely gone from care.
A second or an hour matters not, it’s all the same.
Attention’s fraught with confidence, with never self to blame.

I’ve drawn from this a little trick, and tell it to you now.
Each Autumn when the clocks go back is key to why and how.
It’s two o’clock, and then it’s one — a gift of time, you see —
What most will squander sleeping’s wisely spent by such as me.

You’ve only got an hour and there’s not a tick to lose,
So plan your expedition well, lest forfeit thee the ruse.
Whatever your intentions friend, or any action does,
There’s revelry to find within the hour that never was.