While Now Spreads In Circles

Grateful Dead: Dark Star Paris 5/4/72

Look...Reality is greater
than the sum of its parts,
also a damn sight holier.
And the lives of such stuff
as dreams are made of
may be rounded with a sleep
but they are not tied neatly
with a red bow. Truth doesn't
run on time like a commuter train,
though time may run on truth.
And the Scenes Gone By
and the Scenes to Come
flow blending together
in the sea-green deep
while Now spreads in circles
on the surface. So don't sweat it.
For focus simply move a few inches back or forward.
And once more...look.
--Ken Kesey
from Sometimes a Great Notion