Year


from the ABC set Nearside's Poetry

Twenty oh three
comes almost unannounced
Slipping in through the side door

A single digit change
Hardly seems big
when all four spun just a while back

But the years creep on by
They grow sneakier
As I get older

No flying cars
No colonies on Mars
Nothing that we'd hoped would pass

Everything changes slowly
It seems
Except the date.

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