{
  "author": "<NAME>",
  "classification": "",
  "keywords": [],
  "period": "",
  "reference": "http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249114",
  "region": "",
  "text": [
    "Then it was always",
    "for now, later",
    "for later.",
    "And then years of now",
    "passed, and it grew later",
    "and later. Trapped",
    "in the shrinking",
    "chocolate box",
    "the confused sardine",
    "was unhappy. It",
    "leapt, and banged its head",
    "again. And afterward",
    "they said shall we",
    "repeat the experiment.",
    "And it said",
    "later for that."
  ],
  "title": "Then and Now",
  "year": ""
}