there will come a time / vignette

when telephone books

will change their appearance.

they’ll exist in the aether

with the ghosts of our grandfathers

and with the way we cultivate our personalities.

there will come a time

when we grow old

and personal items are ordered through third-

parties delivered in secret packages.

there will come a time

when leggy Yuja Wang becomes discrete

and lowers her hemlines and that’s not something

I’m looking forward to.