Time Travel

It's 2:18 in the afternoon
Says the clock on the living room wall.
As I sit on my deck daydreaming
About nothing and sipping sweet tea.
I watch two boys riding bikes on the road.
Their laughter floats up to me;
The music of summer and youth.
A little later couple walks by
Holding hands like new lovers.
A bee hovers over the sweet tea
As the sun moves lower in the sky.
It's 2:18 in the afternoon
Says the clock on the living room wall.
A bus stops letting off the children
Who have been attending summer school.
Slowly driveways empty all day fill up
With cars and their drivers hurry inside
Out of the heat and start to prepare dinner.
The phone rings and summons me inside.
It is my supervisor informing me that I am late.
I hurry to change into my uniform.
I was suppose to be there at 5:00 pm.
It's 2:18 in the afternoon
Says the clock on the living room wall.

Read on the radio at KOPN 98.5 FM on March 28th, 2010.