Timepieces

Mightier

It's a well-documented phenomenon among NaNoWriMo writers: the Two Things At Once Bunny, which provides plot ideas paired with inescapable distractions. Such as reminding you that "salacious" and "capacious" rhyme while you are trying to take a shower. I wrote down several stanzas of this poem after drying off, but its signature hemiola effect didn't show up until I expanded it later.

Careful wipe your

Feet, duck don't

Bump your head,

You're in for a

Treat, follow

Where you're led,

Literary

Sweetbreads,

Stories up a-

Head, in the

Ancient tale,

Those you fear and

Dread, those that

Leave you pale,

Literary

Read-mail,

Will you turn your

Tail, will you

Find your feet,

Will you take the

Trail, will you

Find the beat,

Literary

Grail-feat-

Have you got your head,

Did you wipe your feet,

Ready for the tale?

Tap them to the beat,

What was that you said?

Stroll among the booths

now,

Searching yet for truths,

how

Quick the darting youths

vow-

Nothing selling.

Walk among the stalls

now,

Bound within the walls,

how

Quick the many calls

vow-

No one telling.

Pass among the shops

now,

Mind the starts and stops,

how

Quick the people props

vow-

Nowhere dwelling.

Make yourself at home,

do,

Cease your endless roam,

do,

Act as if in Rome,

do,

No foretellings.

colleges of stature,

letters sketched in hachure,

with their knowledge-catchers,

dull old coughers.

here among the market

covers drenched in scarlet

wearing on the carpet

we have authors.

now in - proofs of sapience-

lemon cherry grape - chance

you to spare us eightpence?-

fill our coffer

here they are- salacious

narratives, capacious

romances, your gracious

hosts will offer

careful watch your head, full

racks of penny dreadfuls

buy 'em 'til you've read whole

shelves, we'll proffer

happens now and then,

someone rocks the boat,

veins flow thick with ink,

what was that you wrote,

will you lift your pen?