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They call it daylight saving
I call it daylight robbery
and can you tell me
who is saving it
and for what?

it'll probably pop up on the stock exchange
buy shares in sunlight
get your sums right and
you could be on an earner.
In a minute
or a millennium?
each infinite to a flea
at the sub-quantum level.

What counts is how time is used.

Just went off the clock and look what happened,
think
I might need my wits sharpened.

The centurion in me says
I'm off to the opera
to watch La Traviata
with my alma mater,
but
alma mater
means something different now

everything changes.
Peculiar or was it a pelicula?
jeez
foreign language is like
a biltong sandwich
in that
it leaves a film
on your tongue.
Listening to the old Singer,
no
not her,
the sewing machine
soothing me to sleep,

I'll probably wake up
with a pair of curtains
stitched to my feet.

Mother had one too
then she got a new-fangled
knitting machine
not
my kind of thing,

I used to like hearing her knitting needles
clicking together knowing that soon
I'd get a new cardigan,

the machine itself was made in Taiwan,
that too has gone,

change is everywhere.
..and I was carried in the cradle
to the tower of Babel
and it was where I learnt
to speak in many tongues.

#random
them bible ting run
like the ray from de sun
and burn up yar man,

speak to me
in words I can hear and see
that is what it be.
getting ready to go is as far as I know
She fills in the details en route.

I have seen the setting of the sun in Dubai
and Mumbai before it became that name,
I met girls, the one with pearls for eyes
and was hypnotised,

baptised in the Ganges
for she is the mother
and now
I am still.
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