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

when we order personal items

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.