Friday, August 11, 2017

CHEAP AT THE PRICE



If this was 1940
I might take a subway --
One of the new
IND lines --
And walk a block south
To
24 West 40th Street.
There, I'd ask "Do you have
The Goddess of Time?"
"Certainly," the jeweler would say
"That"ll be one dollar down
And $2.87 a month
For the next ten months."
My grandfather, a watchmaker,
Might have cautioned me
That any watch called
The Goddess of Time
Was no better than it should be
And was not to be trusted.

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