30 seconds

In the thirty seconds you will give to these lines you might hear
eight bars of Beethoven's Eroica,
 or read Shelley's Ozymandiaz
or cut three hyacinths,
or watch a brown bee among the tulips,
 or breathe the new rain from the grass,
or write something better than this banality ­why didn't you?
 -C1uJ.rlu Ballard