Lawrence Hall
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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.”
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