Prepare To Be Wildly Underwhelmed

I love deadlines.
I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams. As do I, as do I.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world,
and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope

My days, swifter than any fawn, have fled
like shadows, and for me no good has lasted
more than a wink, and few are those calm hours
whose bitter-sweetness I keep in my mind.

- Petrarch, Selections from the Canzoniere (319)

This isn’t the whole poem, just my favorite part.