The Timeless Takes Up So Much Time

The apparently spatial and static
Arts aren’t still, aren’t at all atemporal—

The performed piece, famously temporal,
The stereotype of linearity,

Consumes the least amount of time, the least
Change, at least for a given audience,

Whereas the museum piece that looks dead
And seems fixed in place, shifts in every mind

That visits and takes in a bit of it,
Never to be entirely rid of it.