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.