Cosmic clock, you are so long. You are so finely divided. You are so continuously variable. A bug lives a fast life in a month, a small fish a year. I've lived decades and I probably have more. It seems like a long time when I think back. It's nothing compared to you. You are the expanse within which continents jiggle around like water droplets on a hot skillet. You are the scale at which binary stars encircle each other in a guitar string's blur. You watch a galaxy vortex into its black hole while I watch my bathtub drain. What is it like to know the expansion of the universe as a sneeze?

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