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The calendar year is an imperial narrative. |
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The seven-day week is an imperial infliction. |
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Circannual holidays are imperial flag-posts. |
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Mechanical time is an imperial installation. |
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The merchant workday is an imperial offering. |
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Greenwich |
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MeanTime is an imperial sanction. |
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The looming weight, uniformly imposed; as albatross and as anchor. |
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The new time-imperialists will get their way with those left: the rural, the feral, the frail. |
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Feed them a thread, that leads to a string. |
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They'll follow the string, until it leads to a rope, and from that rope every vestige of what was will be hung by the neck. |
