Late

 

Ask, how many ways are there to be late?

Late, late for a very important date.

Paws-and-whiskers late, horse-has-bolted late.

It’s already started so put on your skates.

Fashionably late is the fashion plate.

Inebriates mark one more on the slate.

Copulate, populate, congratulate.

Circulate, miscalculate, contemplate.

Vies the belief that it’s never too late

(Late in time, offspring of a virgin’s wait)

With fate’s it’s-later-than-you-think late.

The late great, the late lamented, always late.

She’ll-be-late-for-her-own-funeral late.

Accumulate to de-accumulate.