Found Poem

          

Nineteen Minutes

March 6, 2007

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.

Nineteen minutes is how long it took the Tennessee Titans to sell out of tickets to the play-offs. It's the length of a sitcom, minus the commercials. It's the driving distance from the Vermont border to the town of Sterling, New Hampshire.

In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.

In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it.

In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.

In nineteen minutes you can mow the lawn

color your hair

bake scones

or even get a tooth filled

You could watch a sitcom

minus the commercials

In nineteen minutes you can have a pizza delivered

or read a childrens book

In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world

or you could jump off it

In nineteen minutes you could get revenge



In nineteen years you can become an adult
you can start a family
or just settle down
In nineteen years you could get stable job
or if you like get a medical degree
you could own your own home
In nineteen years you could even stop the world
if you wish you can even jump off it
In nineteen years you could get revenge