Susan McLean

Out of Sync

It's almost one. Which means it's almost two.
To read the manual fills our hearts with dread,
so setting dashboard clocks is hard to do.
It's almost one, which means it's almost two.
Though half of every year our time's askew,
frankly, we'd rather do the math instead:
it's almost one, which means it's almost two.
To read the manual fills our hearts with dread.

Susan McLean, a retired English professor, is the author of The Best Disguise and The Whetstone Misses the Knife, and the translator of a book of Martial’s Latin poems, Selected Epigrams.  She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.