A Collection of Poems - 2. How much time

HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE?

We never have enough three minutes
for a soft boiled egg five
for a cigarette two years
to recover from a major breakdown two weeks
to recover from a sprained ankle ouch! one day
to recover from too much
tequila you're high for two hours if
you chose the right stuff a handful of seconds
of this orgasm bliss push it up to fifteen two hours
and a half for a thriller movie which can be
painfully long if it lacks rhythm two seconds
and a half for a first impression two minutes and a half will glide on too quickly when the tune is catchy
Two tenths of
a second, pal, to pull the trigger but you'll have
two decades to think about
it It took fourty minutes to
drive to my friends's place when there was
no traffic they moved three miles away
from where they used to live well it'll be longer
by five or six minutes In fifty-eight
minutes a baby's delivered that's when you are
lucky seventeen times that long if you are
my sister she waited for nine months which is pretty
common An eighty -four years life for
Einstein's brain's robber who made the autopsy which lasted
long enough
so that he unraveled time's relativity
Thirteen minutes on the telephone
Eight to blow up a seven-year friendship
(Thirty seconds speaking and the rest in
silence)