Out Of Date/Out Of Time

Who reading this remembers when
food was first sold with dates on it,
for when it was best consumed by?
I don't, and it now it seems not to matter.
My life is now past it's 'best before' date,
which was probably before I was born.

This is why I have to be my own guide,
and eat what I eat with little regard
for the date on the side of the packet.
I do the same with radio programmes.

No Time For The Past, No Time For The Present

When the lives we live discard all time for contemplation
then the pietism older people remember seems outdated,
because it was founded on a lack of entertainment technology.
Technology then makes itself the task of reinventing that past.

This is where our mass mis-remembering
of how the past actually worked makes kitsch inevitable,
which takes the grace out of the past and the present.