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13CLOCKS


James Thurber's "The 13 Clocks":



                            Farther along and            
                            stronger, bonged      
                            the gongs of a       
                            throng of frogs
                                               and smells                    
           The real magic:                     of old                       
           the Golux                           un-opened                   
           really is no                        rooms     
           mere device                                                      
                                                         I killed time         
                                                         here myself one 
      He can not tell         Published in 1950:         snowy morning. 
      what can be from        5 years after                                 
      what can't, he          Hiroshima; 7 years                             
      seldom knows            before On the Road;                          
      what should be          Joe McCarthy just               Cries out to 
      from what is.           warming-up                      be read 
                                                              aloud, and if 
                              Much nostalgic                  you really 
  The spies names:            reference, an                   hated it, I'd 
  Hark, Listen and            intentionally                   guess it's   
  Whisper.  Why               forumulaic,                     because you  
  isn't Whisper               ritualistic                     weren't      
  named something             Fairy Tale.                     hearing it.  
  like "Deep Ear"?                                                             
                              Tears of laughter 
                              produce nothing so           from your           
                              enduring as the              guggle to        
    Marc Simont's art         tears of sorrow.             your zatch
    just works: even his      And neither are                                  
    "indescribeable hat".     easy to force.                      
                                                         Zorn of Zorna
                                                         Saralinda        
    
          A thing of                             The clocks             
          rags and        Uses of                stopped at           
          tatters         repetition:            ten minutes    
                                                 to 5: a                 
                          Musical refrain;       joke for    
                          Context shifts;        office workers?
                          Recap for those       
                          just tuning-in                             
                                         


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