SPRING FORWARD AND FALL OVER
It’s time again, my friends
for the curiously deluded Western race
to engage in that annual chrono-illogical phenomenon
against all odds
we make our Lewis Carrollian case
for a practice that seems to stem from the Necronomicon
the alchemists of old
strove to turn lead into gold
while we in our technological sophistication
engage in legislated sophistries
that turn the space-time continuosities
into a convoluted exercise
that defies
the chrono-synclastic infundibulation
Star-Trekkian time warps
perhaps owe their scientifically suspect origins
to a mid-twentieth century experimental corpse
called Daylight Savings Time
it seems that our so-called leaders
devised a scheme by which
farm kids who had never heard a rhyme
could walk to school in daylight
so they could work from dawn ‘til haylight
never missing a productive beat
so that an increasingly industrialized economy could rely
on thoroughly programmed workers
who left the farm to defy
their agricultural roots
to seek their problematic futures in the capitalistic cities
wherein time was subject to the whims
of disconnected corporate Walter Mittys
so bitch and moan though you may
over lost sleep in the month of April
you have only yourselves to blame for buying into a scheme
that falsely promised a more productive day
by twisting time into a more convenient form
that molds us into a more cohesive norm
my Grandpa had it right
when he said it with his customary foresight
that this was not a natural thing
for humans to twist time to their own occluded bight
he called it Congressional Savings Time
with any luck the professors of the future
will assign this twisted bit of poetry to their students
on the day when time bites its own tail
Omigod how the pupils will rail
over how to find an elusive rhyme scheme
in this tale of how naïve humanity
conquered the gods of logic and the metric system
to institute
something that defies all logic and all reason
to set our clocks ahead
one hour in the vernal season
Bellingham, WA
April, 2003
12:24:30 AM 
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