Only Time
About 7 years ago a student who was into movie making did me a favor and made a montage of different performances of mine as kind of a promotional video. I haven't thought about it in a long time, but this song just came on Pandora and made me recall that video, because it's the one he used as background music. It was a funny (not ha-ha) choice because the music is kind of eerie and gave a spooky feel to the film.
Today 14 kids gave speeches, each hoping to become the next student council president. Quirky and funny seemed to go over best. My money is on the Dimitri Martin/Rita Rudner style humor. The principal just announced that the ballots should be dropped off in the office. The results should be in soon.
I'll be at work tonight till late, am staying straight through for the school play. First I'll have dinner with a friend from when I was in high school. It's all so confusing.
Music plays
My heart beats
Time flies
Can I?
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What awaits?
Nothing and
Everything and
Darkness and
Light.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 3:48 PM
2 Comments:
Good poem!
Thank you.
Just in case anyone's curious...
This flowed quickly. I'm sure it could be made better. It was context/life inspired and also influenced by Zelda
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There's a thing I always teach my Gemorah classes early in the year to illustrate the concepts of hava aminah and maskanah and thinking out of the box.
Time Flies
You Can't
They Go Too Fast
It doesn't make sense... until... you make time the verb and flies the noun. And the meaning is - try to time flies on your stopwatch, you can't, because they go too fast.
That was in mind too.
There's a Chaim Walder story about a high school kid who has a poster hanging in his dorm room that says something to the effect of, "Time flies, you don't have to rush." But the mashgiach, who is given the task of throwing this underachiever out of the yeshiva, explains that because time flies you DO have to rush.
Had that in mind too, often do.
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