Metronome Man

he is rare this old man

he sways does metronome man in strange breezes

he has 2 faces like alternate clowns one comedic & bright the other tragic & dark

his motions conduct time and slow down just as space expands accellerates and starts where there is no time then speeds fleet across the hands of musicians toward an uncertain future still silent and finite as time implodes

larghissimo

coda of a lutenist for example

he is sceptical a straw man made up of strings at the origin of time

what if there are many universes and parallelograms ?

he says his views are unpopular with Czars and other tyrants

the metronome man he winds down

the music vanishes then he is silent metronome man

he is rare this clever engineer