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IN TIME
Because the spring
is coiled too tight.
Because the battery is dead.
Because water got inside.
Because all the moving parts
have stopped. The watch that runs
like a clock is exact. The other is inexact
and runs five minutes behind every 24 hours;
loses a day every two hundred and eighty eight days.
Time running backwards. The watch that runs fast
is ahead of the game, doesn t get stuck, is soundless
because it has no moving parts. The watch you check
before you arrive somewhere. The watch you glance at
mid-sentence. The watch that measures the pulse.
Watch of paralysis: to see, to view the body, the fatal, the fate.
Because all the parts have stopped. Because you didn t get there
early enough. Because you were too late.
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