If time was recorded in seconds only
we'd have a mighty big clock.
There'd be a seconds hand and a seconds arm
and at twenty one six hundred a bell would sound the alarm.
Can you imagine at school in an exam,
the examiner droning like a monotonous bee:
"ten thousand measures of time remaining"
and all concentration is lost in a sea
of thought, so turbulent. The ship flounders
taking down time as we know it.
A jiffy would be a better increment
of a human made constraint.
We'd all say there's so much time to waste.
I mean we have one thousand seconds left.
But oh dear, how wrong, only sweet sixteen minutes.
Time underestimated, if it was only measured in seconds.
Author notes
Conteset. think big.say little.prompt number 5 time was recorded in seconds only
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- Think Big, Say Little by daisybee.
425 points, ended October 8, 2008, 10 entries
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Comments
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This is a very interesting idea, and I like what you did with the prompt. Definitely thought-provoking. Nice write.
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I am so glad that this prompt was chosen-I love the fact that you use these examples and that time would become an unappreciated commodity just because it sounds like theres a lot of it-really made me think this one. Cheers.
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Thank you so much for entering my contest. Back with comments etc later. peace x
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