A villanelle exploring the relationship between time and perception.
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This villanelle is one of my first attempts at writing a villanelle since highschool. It is inspired by the idea of time, and the way humans fundamentally perceive it. People overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a year.
To start our iambic flow, I chose the line "I learned to lie by listening to clocks".