ONE
There is a clock on my wall
Which ticks
But does not move
The journey is expected
What is unexpected is the staying
TWO
My Clock and Yours
Two clocks in the same room
Analogs in dialogue
Tick tick
Tock tock
Tick tick
Two clocks
In the same room
Telling time time
To each other other
Just off off
The beat beat
Tick tick
Tock tock
Tick tick
Two clocks
Cannot agree
On the second
Nearish on the minute
Consensus almost always
upon the hour
Tick tick
Tock tock
Tick tick
Tock tock
THREE
A moment—
According to a childhood memory—
Of Trivial Pursuit facts
Is one-and-a-half minutes
When there are three clocks in the room
There is a waltz swinging
Ti-ti-ta
Ti-ti-ta
Ti-ti-ta
Sixty-ti
Sixty-ti
Sixty-ta
Thirty-ti
Thirty-ti
Thirty-ta
Which makes a
Ninty-ti
Ninty-ti
Ninty-ta
And with a
Number of
Two hundred
Seventy
Movements of
The hand or
Of the feet
The moment
Passes on
Ti-ti-ta
Ti-ti-ta
Ti-ti-ta