Billy Collins' poem "Velocity."
"We must look at things / from the point of view of eternity // the college theologians used to insist, // from which, I imagine, we would all / appear to have speed lines trailing behind us / as we rush along the road of the world, // as we rush down the along tunnel of time-- / the biker, of course, drunk on the wind, / but also the man reading by a fire, // speed lines coming off his shoulders and his book, / and the woman standing on a beach / studying the curve of the horizon, / even the child asleep on a summer night"
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