Clocking off

Catch the two o'clock train

The station stands but we are walking

It will be back again

No stalking

Like a tiger in the long grass

Marauding passersby

Passengers

The tiger of time watching

Each second like a tigers tooth biting

Each minute like a claw, clawing

Each hour like a jaw on bone gnawing

Rolling us over and over, skin flail, caterwauling

Hear time stops

In a relative way at the station

Mr light beam gets off

Several decade before Mrs Sound barrier

Breaks shore in her steamer

Though her waves continue to ripple on the water

Mr light beam has left his particles to scatter

And in a quantum cafe the waitress

Is trying to untangle her reality

She's stirring the protons and neutrons together

In an atomic latte

Mixing in electrons

And a scattering of gluons

She tops it off

With a smattering of quarks

And just when she is serving it to

Mr Schrödinger in a hat

Who keeps appearing and disappearing

At the table over her shoulder
Asking for more milk
For his cat

Time's gravitational wormhole

Opens up to an alternative reality

Where many parallel waitresses

Are having similar experiences

But in a way that would make you

Question their validity

And I sit there sipping my coffee
Thinking of all the pieces
That fit together
Because they have to
Fall apart because
They want that
And I look at my watch
And realize my train
Will soon depart
I return the time piece
To my breast pocket
And it ticks a little
out of time
Above the beating
Of my heart

I digress, and I should

As life is a digression

Or is it a regression

Into an infinity of mirrored doors

Never mind, behind one

A prize surely awaits

And we are all winners

In the cosmic game show

Known as reality

And here is your host

Mr Reality TV