You were in the settlement. 
We were sitting there, and  
I made a joke about it.. how  
it doesn’t dovetail: time,  
one minute running out  
 
faster than another time in front  
that catches up.  
That way, I said  
there can be no waste.  
Waste is left out of the settlement.   
 
To come back for a few hours to  
the present tense, an instagram,  
looking like it was being seen, half- 
turned backward, slightly moist, reading us.