Slow

We suppose, if you really
Want to live longer, you should
Practice dull activities

That seem to take forever,
Anything not unpleasant
During which you are tempted,

Frequently, to check your watch.
Feel how your life slows itself,
How your time expands. Hours start

To feel like eternities,
Like sentences in prison
Or in Henry James. Hours start

With no idea how to end
Only to begin again.