Today's Marmalade

     Jam every other day. The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - 

     but never jam today. White Queen

Anything that’s still striving is interesting—
trying to help us make it to tomorrow.
What’s finished is so yesterday!

Yesterday we were striving fools—
tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
we were endeavoring to become, so we were interesting—

not waiting to see what tomorrow brings—
whether it be joy or sorrow.
When tomorrow finally does come, it’s so yesterday!

We were trying to work our clay,
work it on out of the mud with hoes and shovels.
Anything that’s morphing is interesting.

Never will we rue the days
we spent rehearsing Christmas carols.
We didn’t sing them very well

yesterday either. Succumbing to each passing craze,
we thought we were corpses but we were shape-changers.
Anything that’s still striving is interesting.
What’s finished is so yesterday!