A Waste of Time for the Time Being

A Waste of Time For the Time Being.

 “time” and “tide”  and “divine” and  

 “demon/daemon”as well as

demographic and democracy: all

share anetymological  root with

Indo Euopean da, dai –“ to separate,”

 “divide.”

Not this ________________________

but this  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

How would you characterize this difference 

between thewhole  and the broken, the 

continuum and the discontinuous,

analogue and digital?    

The relationship?

“Time” literally belongs to the later, 

the divided, the separate.“What  time

 is it?”  You might ask. “How much

time do wehave left?.”  “Till  lunch?” 

Till graduation?

How much you got?  Enough to waste?

School (Latin: schola—leisure) is a 

proper waste of time.I shifted my way

of teaching  years ago because what I

was doing didn’t feel like leisure,  like 

a proper waste of time.  It was all 

spending and consuming, time management

and accounting.  

What I do now IS a ROYAL Waste of  TIME

—and a happy crime against convention. 

No cover-up with  grade-gun pretense 

authorizing what’s  important and what’s

not even if none of it is; and  I tell myself

I’m factoring IT in (IT –wasted time)  a 

non- agenda-ized resource,  a tabula rasa

kind of zero-based play,  starting  up   

each time from oldscratch, reinventing

wheels and  who knows what kind of

emerging phenomena and value  will

emerge?  Auto poesis it’s called in biology:

a system creating itself: mess & muddle.

Poetry in slow  motion & no efficiency

need apply.

            

               WHOLE