Construct or Not

Pulling and pushing and dancing up and down Like monkeys no one is watching but the behaved crowd Who paid to expect what they came to see and get their moneys worth In a humble and normative way as the rest of their fellow neighbors Would brag about what places to visit and crave The onlookers are consumers who come out during the day Only when time allows them away from their computer and Obligations and time with their families off the clock And race against time to outstretch the day’s moments into Lasting memories they rush to create And be in the moment somehow At the same time they wish to obscure and automate With their own helpless hands and hearts they give their all Of all they have to give to what they’re allowed to predict And in these moments they plan for themselves and everyone Else that they love and care about enough to sit down With and talk as if time stopped ticking Oh wouldn’t it be a dream of us in a world That kept no clocks, timecards or mortgages to bear.