Time bomb-

tick- tick- tick-
The Time bomb seconds count away.
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The only explosives here are the seconds themselves
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They count down in the clock on my computer
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(Twelve minutes until the cats’ breakfast)
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They lurk on the microwave clock
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(7:24, six minutes left to get through Facebook)
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Seconds pound away on the face of my phone
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They peer out accusingly from the cable box
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They hover eternally in the upper right corner of my iPad
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Please do not tell me you lost track of the time-
There are no words for that in my language.