Right now, Ed is playing the piano. Right now, people are having unprotected sex. Right now is passing you by. Right now, justice is being perverted in a court of law. Right now, blacks and whites don’t eat together very much. Right now you could be outside. Right now, the light from a star in M-5 is heading toward Earth. Right now, light that left M-5 a thousand years ago is getting to your house. Right now, God is killing moms and dogs because he has to. Right now, guilt is turning someone inside out. Right now, Van Halen is planning a world tour. Right now there’s a bomb factory hard at work. Right now you are sitting too close. Right now, somebody’s got the wrong idea. Right now, oil companies and old men are in control. Right now, it’s business as usual in the woods. Right now nothing is more expensive than regret.
RIGHT NOW
Right now, people who can’t read/breathe/read/breathe/read/breathe/read are bumming. Right now is just a space between ice ages. Right now youth is king. Right now maybe we should pay attention to the lyrics.
Miss a beat
You lose the rhythm
And nothing falls into place
INTERMISSION TIME
Right now is a good time to repent.
Only missed by a fraction
Slipped a little off your pace
Right now, the truth is being obscured. Right now, science is building a better tomato. Right now, pigs are becoming lunch. Right now, someone is working too hard for minimum wage. Right now a convenience store is open. Right now, Mike is thinking about a solo project. Right now your parents miss you. Right now ysters are being r bbed f their s le p ssessi n.
Right now no one is safe from loneliness. Right now it’s cold where someone you love is. Right now it’s nicer in Cabo. Right now, a mad man is wandering the streets of the town you live in. Right now a tired man with a wounded heart is sitting in a coach seat on an eastbound transatlantic flight looking out the window wondering how to say “dog,” “howl” and “moon” in French just in case it comes up.
RIGHT NOW
SHE IS GOING
ON WITH
HER LIFE.
Right now, time is having its way with you. Right now, forces are aligning against you. Right now, someone is walking onto a nude beach for the first time. Right now, Ed’s got his hands full. Right now, you wish you had a larger TV.
WRITE NOW.
NOW
Right now, our government is doing things we think only other countries do. Right now you aren’t doing what you most wish you were. Right now is harder than it looks. Right now your memory is getting longer while your life is getting shorter. Right now dogs have it good. Right now is not the fault of the Japanese. Right now there is no cure. Right now people are doing it for money. Right now a bowl of soup would be nice. Right now keeps happening.
Right now we must be going.
Jim Wagner is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
