Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Clock (idea) by nocodeforparanoia

My English class second semester, freshman year at Pratt had an assignment to read Wallace Stevens' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, and then write a poem entitled 'Thirteen ways of looking at a...', in which we would pick any subject, and then write thirteen short stanzas about that subject. I picked a clock.

Tick tock
Circuity.
Security.
Another day
Will pass.

Run run,
motherfucker.
You are not
Where you are
Supposed to be.

III

You always seem
To do this to me.
I was doing my best,
And you have
Made me late
Again.

Wake up!
Wake up!
You are
Sleeping
Your time
All away!

Tick...
(waiting...)
(worrying...)
(wondering...)
(watching...)
Tock.

I want
To tear you
Off
The
Wall.

VII

VIII

I hate to watch you,
But panic when you stop.
How will I know when to get
Where I don't want to be?

XII

Try?ing
`` to kEep
. u~P
i seem to
_______have
drop
- ped
my^
.....things.

XIII

I
Do not
Have time
For this.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	Apathy Is At the Razor's Edge	Thirteen Ways of Looking at White	The three-handed clock
Razor's Edge	Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down	Noders' poetry	Great first lines
A clock stopped	Whatever is loved is beautiful	Stanza	entropy
Nineteen Days	Three truths about the sky	Counter-clock World	What poetry isn't
Guerilla Art Fare	Ocean's Twelve	Unlucky 13	parsimony
Thirteen	Bivalence

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Clock (idea)