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Tock-Tick

By Elsa Knight Bruno 

Art by David Galchutt

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Tock-tick, tock-tick!
It must be sick!
Why won’t my clock
tick-tock, tick-tock?

Its arms rotate
from nine to eight.
They’re in reverse
and getting worse!

If they don’t turn
the other way,
then soon it will
be yesterday!

Tock-Tick