This is not a day,
not an hour,
not a minute,
not even a second,

This is not an event,
hardly history,
certainly not future,
barely present,

This is a piece
of what happens,
what has happened,
and possibly what will happen,

This is not a this,
not a thing,
not an event of itself,
nothing that possesses a decisive definition,

This is a cryptic perspective,
a minute comprehension,
of existence,
of being,

Of being,
not of you,
not of me,
of and not of,
being and not being,

Self in itself
is only an aspect of perspective,
a limited form of experiencing being,
falsified distinction to feel
there is some thing,

False distinction
of now,
past,
future,
time,

False distinction
of here,
there,
some place,
this place,
spatiality,

False distinction
of I,
you,
they,
one,
self,

This is not any thing,
this is no thing,
this is every thing,
this is any thing,
this is,
this is not.

19:15 8 November 2000
Amsterdam, Netherlands
(Temporality, Benjamin, Celan, Derrida, Shibboleth)