This little
clock began to tic toc
when Apollo
8 circled the moon
and the
astronauts read Genesis
as Earth
rose blue and white
on Christmas
eve.
In those
days computers
including Apollo
8’s
ran on tapes
– long gone
but the lo-tech
motor
in this
clock keeps on.
It has
endured myriad meals
cooked in
the kitchen,
the grime, the
renovator’s hammer,
his stirring
up of dust.
It has aged much
less
than those who
have consulted it –
to time an
egg or calculate
what must be
done
for guests
by when.
But reducing
time to hours
the clock obscures
time’s harsh reality.
Eight today on
its face
looks much as
it did yesterday.
kidding us
it could tick on
unchanged
forever.
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