I don't have present tense. There's ghosts in the machine. They fit through sprocket gaps and wrench into the workings. The gears still turn away. Can you remember when all this was new? A mighty excitement? And one took a ride on a bicycle byproduct, pedalling backwards for fun. You were stuck just exactly where you belonged. Don't look to future tense. Checks bounce and clocks rust out. Empires are testaments, they burn when they are old. The buildings waste away. Can you remember when all this was new? A mighty excitement? And one day you turned to a digital byproduct, back-pedalled, stride, and strode on. Can you remember when you were stuck just exactly where you belonged? Can you remember when you were stuck where you were all along? I don't have past tense now. It left when the drive failed. Crossed wires and circuit shorts, syntax capacity, omits and fades away.