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Sticky sleepless night
even the clock
... pick-a-pick-a-pick!

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Tones of silence:
pocket watch
... unneeded.

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The clock's mantra:
now this now this
now this now ...

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Patter
of a thousand thousand clocks
... the rain's tender time.

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Tones of absence -
nothing of shadow
but an untended clock.

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