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Time's a Wasting

Science improves things, so they say, can't prove it by me, take the clock once it swung, and cockco's played now it's silent, no tick or tock. Old clocks clucked each tick and each tock tongue to roof, they made a clapping. Once they had arms and hands and locks now they don't even aid napping. Mum's the word with digital clock zipped are those lips, no face, no brow no sinister tock from Hook's Croc no moon shaped face, no leaping cow. Flashing red numbers, fanned peacocks neon in trancers, with tin man hearts lipless automatons in stock toss them all from your K-mart cart! Live I say get a grandfather clock one with a face, two arms and heart with a pendulum swinging tick tock tick off the sleepers screw K-Mart.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013




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Date: 10/23/2013 8:54:00 PM
Hi Debbie, , interesting Personifying Science poem.... congrats on the win..... Love Skat <3
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Date: 10/22/2013 10:44:00 PM
Debbie . CONGRATULATIONS... always & forever~ LINDA
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Date: 10/18/2013 5:19:00 AM
Congrats on the win in the contest, debbie
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Date: 10/17/2013 10:47:00 PM
Thanks very much for this heartfelt complaint about science's lacks of forward motion. It does personify science as a collection of unneeded items. You didn't however choose the personification form that was a contest requirement. I enjoyed your work, a good poem is a good poem regardless of the contest. Thanks much for entering my contest.
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Date: 9/29/2013 4:35:00 PM
Awesome way to say screw Walmart!! yep, I miss a lot of the old fashioned things and the new is not always better. I miss the old fashioned clocks too. Is it for the science contest? Very unique idea.
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Date: 9/28/2013 1:23:00 PM
Brilliant!!!Love this!
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Date: 9/27/2013 5:17:00 PM
You are a genius, Debbie...This is a masterpiece...Yes...Fooey with science...Give me the tried and true..the simple beauty of a grandfather clock...HUGS
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