Past Due

Savoring can’t save you from suffering.
Moreover, there’s a through-line from many
Savory things you’ve done to whatever
You currently find yourself suffering.
Savoring correlates with suffering,

And if, in the near past, savoring sits
Alone in recall as fond memory,
As the years go on, its correlative
Will arrive to join it, an argument
For dying early enough to skip town.