In 2017, radio stations came up with the idea of no longer giving traffic jam reports in kilometer lengths, but instead stating the “lost” time for each traffic jam. The sound piece TEMPUS FUGIT is a compilation of these “lost times” from several months of traffic jam reports. It begins with “time loss 10min”, and then meanders redundantly, stoically, consistently rhythmically and with idiosyncratic poetry, for minutes through the time losses (only very sparingly accentuated by situational information, in which, in traffic news style, a large stone on the road or an overturned milk truck is pointed out), until it ends or begins again with the statement “time loss possibly several hours”. TEMPUS FUGIT quietly and calmly presents our helpless way of dealing with standstill. As an everyday normal state on our highways, it brings into view what is all the more challenged by the pandemic: our constantly accelerating rush forward is finite.