The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for January 1999
the clock
will last ten
thousand years
ticking
once
a day
twenty-eight
bit bites devouring
space
concentric wheels
rotating
in display
each century
it strikes
passing
generations
instead
of time
and every
thousand years
a cuckoo
cries
inquiring:
who will pay and
who will wind
based on an article in the end-of-1998 'Economist' magazine entitled "Deep Time"
December 31, 1998
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