when you write If you died
today, where would you spend
eternity? “If you died”
with “would” suggests you know
I haven’t or won’t, but how? And if
I die today, how will my
dying be connected to my
spending of eternity? Does one
spend eternity the way
one spends time? Why then
would my dying change where
I would spend it? Or will
my dying? And can one
save it for a later time? Draw
interest? What would be the place
of spending time or eternity? Seems
it could be any place, and it isn’t
really spent. If one spent all of eternity,
would it be finally spent? And does time spend
itself if I don’t? Time, perhaps, passes,
but that does not depend on what
I do. And if eternity passes
the way time does, what sense
does it make to call it something other
than time? If it is not time, I don’t suppose
I am spending it, though it is present
in each place I am today,
alive or dead. Or should I say
the places are present in it? Are they
also in time? And is time in
eternity passing? I can not imagine
I will have to pass it when
I am dead. But that may be
a failure of my imagination.

In any case,
thank you for the puzzle,
which helped me
pass time if not eternity
in Tennessee today.

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