Originally named “Untitled,” the charm of the piece rests in the skillful repetition of characters throughout the text. Although the poem is clearly at odds with the rules of traditional versification, patterns of tone and rhyme are observed.
Year by year, the years go, inevitably they go.
Day by day, the days come, inexorably they come.
The years go and the months come in a flurry of come and go, genesis of time in Heaven, of human affairs on earth.
That right is right and wrong is wrong is not indubitably right; that wrong is right and right is wrong is not indubitably wrong;
that wrong is right and right is wrong is just conceivably right; that right is right and wrong is wrong is both right and wrong.