Clocks don't click and sputter or whirl around in a frenzy anymore, they blink 12:00 persistently or they link up to some super-satellite, streaming through space keeping me ever ready and on time as I waste the minutes taking too long in the shower and singing to myself songs about being tired and anxious. The digital age looms onward with its glittering electric bridges spanning out in unimaginable directions, fusing effortlessly with the next bridge and the next, but nothing concrete, no bustling second-hands, no pendulum tumbling back and forth like grandpa in his rocker with his war books, reminiscing and maybe even reliving Naples or Rome and the sunshine, and time.