MY BELOVED CUCKOO CLOCKS



Two of my bird clocks are busted and can't tell time. I must reluctantly send them to the nether basura regions.

Never forget, my two cuckoo clocks, that they are not long the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream our path emerges for a while and then closes within a dream.

No hay un mal que por bien no venga. Ustedes ni siquiera una sola vez dejaron para mañana lo que podrían haber hecho de inmediato. Agarraron las astas de la vida. Que les vaya muy bien, etcetera, etcetera... .

You measured time as warriors and we shall not soon forget ye all or is it ye both? Farewell, faithful time pieces, valiant clocks. I will not say do not weep, for all tears are not an evil. This is but a single click of the cosmic, celestial chronometer.

And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.

Do not go as a gentile into that good night, etc. etc.

Mice have run up and down the both of you for the very last time!

You served us well!

CLOCK HANDS

On January 6, 2018, I woke up and looked at my clock through blurry eyes. 1:30 AM it said. I turned on the TV. There was a beer on the TV stand. A Negra Modelo. I popped it open and watched a little TV. When I was through with the beer, I turned off the TV and was fixin' to go to sleep when I saw light coming in the window.

It was Seven Thirty. The minute and hour hands are so close to the same size that I never know what time it is. The hands look exactly the same.

To solve this problem I went to target. What I saw there told me that my prayers had been answered:



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