Lawrence Hall
[email protected]
Poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
Hellopoetry.com
In Search of Lost Timepieces
(as Marcel Proust did not say)
When clocks were electric and mechanical
They almost never agreed with each other
The glowing G.E. beside the bed read 2:00
While Mother’s kitchen pastel hummed 2:03
Dad’s Hamilton ticked 1358
(And you never argued with him about it)
Grandfather Clock chimed whenever he wanted, by cracky
And the Timex took a licking at 2:04
But now all clocks obey an electronic command –
As the old joke goes, “We have ways of making you tock.”
Jul 3, 2023
Jul 3, 2023 at 8:41 PM UTC
Lawrence Hall
[email protected]
Poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
Hellopoetry.com
In Search of Lost Timepieces
(as Marcel Proust did not say)
When clocks were electric and mechanical
They almost never agreed with each other
The glowing G.E. beside the bed read 2:00
While Mother’s kitchen pastel hummed 2:03
Dad’s Hamilton ticked 1358
(And you never argued with him about it)
Grandfather Clock chimed whenever he wanted, by cracky
And the Timex took a licking at 2:04
But now all clocks obey an electronic command –
As the old joke goes, “We have ways of making you tock.”