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Lawrence Hall Oct 2020
Lawrence Hall
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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

                               The Ministry of Clockery

                                 Moonbeam Saving Time

Change for the sake of change – spare change? Spare change?
There must be a Ministry of Clockery
With Cratchit-y clerks drawing clocks at their desks
Supervised by a Scrooge of Clockery

They scriven at their screens and so change things
Chanting “Change is good” and “Progress is change”
“The more things change, all the more change for us”
And if nothing needs changing, yes it does

And once in a while at the Coke machine
One of the Cratchit-y clerks laughs, “Spare change?”
A poem is itself. The orbits and rotations and wobbles of the earth, moon, sun, and stars - C. S. Lewis calls this The Great Dance - are also themselves.
Lawrence Hall Nov 2018
“I can buy a clock, sir!”

-Will Roper, obtuse as usual, to Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons

Some vague authority for this and that
Advises us that now is the time for all
Good men to come to the aid of their clockery
And set each loyal clock an hour back

For after all, the old times were much better
When an American-made watch or clock
Required a good, strong man to wind it up –
None o’ yer godless Chinese ‘tronics, eh

And as the seasonal will must have it so
Upon our rounds to each house clock we go!
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is:
Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com.
It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.

My vanity publications are available on amazon.com as bits of dead tree and on Kindle:  The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.

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