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I was only a week early and have returned the clocks to daylight savings until then.

Fall Back
By Franklin Price
10/29/3017

Did you set your clocks back?
Daylight saving's time is through
Did you do  it as directed?
As the clock was striking two

Did you know that's least intrusive?
If you go right back to bed
Get to sleep an hour longer
Or wake earlier instead

It's really quite confusing
What this changing does to us
We now have an extra hour
No excuse to miss the bus

If you didn't turn the clocks back
You'll be the earliest to church
Might even think the minister
Has left you in a lurch

I just looked at my I-phone
It wasn't yet turned back
I checked it out on Google,
I should still be in the sack

I really feel quite foolish
A birdie told me from the net
I know it's true for everything
So the clocks are back, you bet

Yet, we have another week
'Til daylight time is through
 I now have an extra hour
To set my clocks anew

After I've reset the clocks
Now that I know the score
This poem's still on the right track
For stanzas one through four

So don't forget next Sunday,
Is the the day to change the time
Next week, without egg on my face,
May write another changing rhyme.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 11/14/2017 7:10:00 PM
Must be a great poem because it made me laugh, and a merry heart does good like a medicine. Will check for more good medicine. Blessings, Vivien
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