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(The banner digital painting of the melting clock is by the author, Olan Smith)

It's About Time

©Nov. 2nd 2021, Olan L. Smith

Twelve twenty-two, not three or four,

But two. That was the hour she said adieu.

Time is so synchronized, not like before

When one chimed then another, all askew.

Younglings tilt their heads, wonder whatdoyoumean,

You mean, a time when accuracy was just about?

A moment not exact from room-to-room, wedged between

From house-to-house, what an unfaithful route.

Such innocent kids today, reliant of on their gadgets

To tell the time. No need to read a timepiece's face,

No need to adjust for time, all arranged baskets

Keeping track, around she falls, and orbits in space.