Kit Kelen #93 - day of the extra hour

93

day of the extra hour

(and what I did with it)

slept in to begin

dreamt of what to do…

so many projects to fit in an hour

I moved boxes all day

wrote this poem

spoke to my brother at length

raked an hour

washed …

I ironed out

there was a lot of dust

and a lot of sweeping

I was moving in to the extra hour

it was many years since I'd had it

so something novel for me

an hour is good for observation!

you could see everything growing

an extra hour green

the sun more shining

moon more bone

birds know all about it

try the new songs out

leaves fall an extra hour to earth

extra siesta

a whole hour of extra sex

and I learned to play the piano

I declared war on the lantana

and I made peace with the paspalum

one more hour in paradise here at home

afternoon

and there was extra kookaburra

in the gloaming

mosquitoes ramped up their revenge

they went the extra hour as well

after all that effort

a toast to the extra hour!

I raise a bumper to it

had a few drinks and a few more

took pills

got stoned

dropped a trip

shot up

dried out

straightened up

went on the wagon

mended my ways

stood on a soapbox

got smug

found religion

lost it again

I swam till the last light was lost

still after that the extra hour

kept showing up like a good penny

I was beginning to weary of it tell the truth

I thought

tomorrow time will vanish again

but for now

the extra hour is mine

and though it's actually hard work

I reflected

I want an extra hour every day

so later in the evening

I devoted the extra hour to the creation

of a new calendar

(one taking the extra hour into account)

I soon realized that this was not ambitious enough

an extra day would help here and there (weekends for instance)

an extra week would have great advantages (especially during holidays)

now I know you'll say it will be difficult

to get all of these things agreed to by the powers that be

but in fact I think a lot of it can be done unilaterally

really it's a state of mind thing

you don't even need to wear a watch

extra years

an extra life

came to the idea of cloning

you see how it was

under my hat

the cogs kept on

all because they had

one extra hour to whirr