Meditações - The clock is obdurate

Troy Davis

 

The clock is obdurate,

Random, and definite.

Obdurate the calendar.

You thump on the cot: another signature.

 

Did it didn’t do it would do it again.

And if a deferred dream dies? Please sign the petition.

Very good. Let’s hunt for a pen.

If you thump, there’s another signature and

Signatures are given freely by the signer’s hand.

Kathleen Ossip