Tick Tock clock dead<\/p>\n
No-one checks what the kids watch<\/p>\n
on TV when on their\u00a0 <\/span>own<\/p>\n Ring Ring Phone Broken<\/p>\n Doesn\u2019t take any time to stare out into space<\/p>\n so you can do it as much as you like<\/p>\n you will never be late<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s the usual story parents fighting<\/p>\n Gas lighting each other<\/p>\n It\u2019s so common it would feel strange if<\/p>\n There wasn\u2019t a row first thing in the morning<\/p>\n And of course, the beginning of the disappearing<\/p>\n uMhlanga* Rocks or was it Sands?<\/p>\n It no longer matters,<\/p>\n it was catastrophic regardless<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You\u2019ll love Christmas on the beach<\/em><\/p>\n They promised<\/p>\n and we as kids agreed with<\/p>\n whatever was presented upon the table<\/p>\n Traditions and promises weren\u2019t kept in our family<\/p>\n Survival was to be flexible enough to spin on a quarter<\/p>\n and keep smiling far longer than you oughta.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tick Tock clock dead<\/p>\n No one checks on who talks to<\/p>\n the kids on the beach<\/p>\n Ring ring phone broken<\/p>\n Doesn\u2019t take a shrink to analyse<\/p>\n they\u2019re telling lies to us to them again<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Presents opened on a hotel floor<\/p>\n lack the panache and grandeur<\/p>\n of discoveries at home. In amongst the ordinary,<\/p>\n parcels brightly wrapped,<\/p>\n even as large as a finger nail<\/p>\n would be pronounced magic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There\u2019s\u00a0 <\/span>no room to play so toys are packed away<\/p>\n and it\u2019s down to the beach for a holiday<\/p>\n of watching long walks and disappearances<\/p>\n While we played in the surf watching<\/p>\n the adults play tag<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tick Tock clock dead<\/p>\n No one checks on who gives out<\/p>\n the memories to the kids to keep<\/p>\n Ring ring phone broken<\/p>\n They had to be so much more<\/p>\n inventive before we attached to technology.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (*Pronounced UM-SHLANG-A, in <\/i>South Africa)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tick Tock clock dead No-one checks what the kids watch on TV when on their\u00a0 own Ring Ring Phone Broken Doesn\u2019t take any time to stare out into space so you can do it as much as you like you will never be late …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1278,"featured_media":74067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3441,81,719,3914,3913,2056,3475,3915,3912],"class_list":["post-73929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-jlnash","tag-beach","tag-christmas","tag-clock","tag-durban","tag-holiday","tag-janenash","tag-presents","tag-umhlanga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74079,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73929\/revisions\/74079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}