Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd 
entertains reckons partition of time
into seconds, minutes, days,
weeks, months, years...
as artificial man/woman made construct
as convenient modus operandi
invented to measure motion
of the sun, water, and sand
additionally to keep track
of quotidian activities.

December thirty first
two thousand twenty two countdown
will unsuspectingly, transparently