January 21, 2025

it’s time

In a minute, the average eye will blink 12 times. 
Around the world, fifty-eight planes will lift off
Twice that amount of people will get married. 
Eighty-three thousand will have sex.
Two cars will be stolen. There will be 1.5 divorces,
and four earthquakes and blood will move through
our bodies three times. Ninety-six million cells
will divide, replacing the ninety-six million that were lost. 
Six thousand bolts of lightning will strike and five books
will be published and the wings of hummingbirds will flutter
four thousand times, and in the time it took to read this,
your heart pulsed sixty times, or maybe 100, and 48 other thoughts 
came to you, and the earth tore across the heavens for another
eighteen hundred kilometers, and the sun delivered 
83.33 terrawatts of energy to the open arms of the universe,
and 150 babies saw their mothers for the first time.