“It is possibly later than you think,

It is likely later than you think,

It is usually later than you think,

It is somewhat later than you think, 

It is considerably later than you think, 

It is a whole lot later than you think, 

It is sometimes later than you think, 

It is a good deal later than you think, 

It is always later than you think,

It is by all odds later than you think, 

It is surely later than you think,

It is certainly later than you think, 

It is definitely later than you think, 

It is undoubtedly later than you think . . .”

(Merrill Moore, from _M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets_ (1938)