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ARC: Etc: Arts: Marketing as Life: My Grandmother's Clocks

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ARContribution by George M. Zinkhan

          “My Grandmother's Clocks”

The grandfather clock at my grandmother's house strikes eight times
   when it is only four o'clock
   in the afternoon.

The kitchen clock is sixteen minutes fast
   at least and grandma's
   bedroom clock has no discernable pattern.

It may show two
   (in the morning!?)
   when I think that it is seven (at night).

On other clocks
   the hands don't visibly turn
   at all.

At the age of 81
   my grandmother seems not to notice
   this confusing contradiction of clocks.

She is quite advanced
   in her approach
   to the years.
 

Cockeysville, MD
August 1993

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