alt.Insubstantial.life.is-dream?.is-all?.is-only-that?
alt.Shining.moment.flashed.flickered.glimpsed
alt.All-powerful.Time.streams.flows.darkens

alt.Bitter.woe.bow.stoop.crush,
alt.Odd.curiosities.distract.divert.guffaw --
alt.Wasted.lives.flutter.idle.vanish.

alt.Mortal.span.spend.fritter.exhaust;
alt.All-too-brief.noodtide.occupy.inhabit.live
alt.Noiseless.End.!notice.!predict.!see.

Benjamin Peterson, 2004