Kim Rodrigues Poet Free verse

Time Is Elementary

The only reason for time
is so that everything
doesn’t happen at once

Albert Einstein

TIME IS ELEMENTARY

swatches of bands, smart
time is elementary;
strapped snug, cosseted
on a small-pale wrist.

coffee fumes and coal
chugging on life’s track.
cuckoo bird on half
and every hour —
oh, why’d it have to stop?!
(salvation in Grandma’s coffee cake)

polaroid portions collecting dust;
ink-streaked down
memory’s bust.

ironic how i can’t remember
the ding-dong digital or sundial
in our own home —
clocks have a mind of their own
busy with keeping its children,
well swept, wound
and educated.

6/29/2019

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Maurice Rigoler July 2, 2019 at 11:06 AM Merci pour vos commentaires, Kim, ils sont toujours appréciés. / M Kim Rodrigues July 2, 2019 at 11:59 AM De rien, monsieur!

Caren Krutsinger June 29, 2019 at 9:21 PM This part was amazingly clever and wise: " coffee fumes and coal chugging on life’s track. cuckoo bird on half and every hour — oh, why’d it have to stop?! (salvation in Grandma’s coffee cake)" That would have been a great poem in itself, Kim. Kim Rodrigues June 29, 2019 at 9:33 PM Hugs, Caren! Thank you!

Sand Blown June 29, 2019 at 4:42 PM cofcof...i ah...um...i dare to take note with the 'official' wording of the einstein quote... time does not exist to prevent everything from happening at once; it is as the other way round... nature is: things do not happen all at once...we count 'things', and call it clock time Kim Rodrigues June 29, 2019 at 4:44 PM Thanks, Sand!

Jennifer Proxenos June 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM Albert Einstein - the cleverest man in the world - time is elementary and nothing happens all at once, one can say that is why evolution is what it is. Great write Kim. Well penned. Hugs, Jennifer. Kim Rodrigues June 29, 2019 at 9:54 AM Thanks, Jennifer! Squeezy hug...Kim