An appointment with a person can be broken by either of you.
An appointment with an empty hour can only be broken by one.

Everything arranged with anybody this year has been rearranged, twice, by text.
The hour has never once said it was running late.
That is not loyalty. It is only that it has nowhere else to be.
I have built the whole week out from it anyway,
because it is the one post in the ground that goes down further than the frost.

The Book of the Ghost — Grind 36:4