“Since thirty mornings
are required to make
A day of which we say,
this is the day
That we desire, a day of
blank, blue wheels,
Involving the four corners
of the sky,
Lapised and lacqued
and freely emeraldine
In the space it fills,
the silent motioner
There, of clear, revolving
crystalline;
Since thirty summers
are needed for a year
And thirty years,
in the galaxies of birth,
Are time for counting
and remembering….”
— Wallace Stevens,
“Of Ideal Time and Choice,”
in The Necessary Angel, 1951
“When it’s time to railroad,
people start railroading.”
— Robert A. Heinlein in
The Door into Summer, 1957
“Everybody’s doin’
a brand new dance now…”
— Kylie Minogue, 1987-88
Happy birthday, Kylie.