You are so tough
                        you are always pushing

                                    forward forward forward

                        I can do the same
                        I am tough
                        I can push

                                    forward forward forward

                        but if all we are ever doing
                        is pushing
                                    forward forward forward
                        when do we ever

            stop

                        to soak in the scene—
                        freeze frame, cinematic
                        on silent celluloid—

            pause eject return                        

                        and never mind
                        if we forget to
rewind.