February 31st
Is my birthday in an alternate universe
The last of the unimportant days
From there I make my way, raw and unrehearsed
I envision with apprehension—with superstitious caution
The old-man-me to be and how much joy he packed away
How much he collected along the way
The statistical data of smiles/day
I yearn to enjoy my days as I wish
It’s a small matter of making a simple choice
The only thing keeping my from this
Is to truly listen to my inner voice
Too many times we say
Go ahead, make my day
I’m going to make my own days of my own design
With my own rain or shine, my own length of time
Space-Time is relative to how you pack it
You need to grab it and bring it to bear
Go hyperspatial, leave none to spare
Collect the memories and enjoy it while it’s there
Make up your own scale, who says the one we know is right?
Focus your mind with all your might
Hold on a second —seize the cesium— stretch an hour — give the months new names
And create the month of Remember
JArtB
July 4, 2021
Footnotes:
🔸 Thought instigator—a song by the Black Pumas called Oct 33.
🔹 Concepts learned from reading the book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Josh Foer
🔹 The year 46 BCE was 445 days long to get on track with the new Julian Calendar
🔹 Early Rome’s lunar calendar was only 10 months long. There was no January and February- the time between December and March was deemed unimportant because it had nothing to do with the harvest.
🔹 A second, defined as about 9 billion oscillations of the cesium atom (CS-133)