He is wealthy, for he gets

tomorrow

next week

and the week after

following by a whole month and the upcoming year

yet he is a spendthrift

sprinkling his time over everything important

or unimportant

1 hour of wandering around,

3 hours of lying on the bed, failing to fall asleep,

2 hours of looking for the best place to start working

5 hours of writing down a sentence, then 

Reply to a friend

Watch short videos

Check today’s news

Play a round of chess

Click on a random link

Play with the thumb

Play with the pinkie

and delete the sentence, and start again

When I met him, he only murmured in a low voice

“If,” he said, “if, if, if, if, if.”