First a look at the clock
Next an assertive knock
"Dave?"
"Dave's not here"
Tick tock tick tock
Another servile knock
"Good morning Dave"
"Good morning Hal"
Time pals
Placement of odyssey
Another space oddity
Tick tock tick tock
Hoping we don't blow a fuse
Refuse out here in confused space
What a lonely spatial place
Tracking a celestial muse
Tracing a galactic life time of cruze
Such a racy fantasy
Across the Serengeti
Traversing Antarctica
Intersecting Equatorial Africa
Sailing the blue Pacific
Bridging the cold Atlantic
Honouring the setting summer sun
Watching the harvest moon rise and run
Siwashing an untamed winter night away
Attentive servants and guests of Montezuma
Measuring rasping glaciers carving time
Gasping at fervent stars and errant meteors
Imprinting history  upon my aspiring soul
Tick tock tick tock
"Good afternoon Dave"
"Good afternoon Hal"
So many mysterious birthdays
Everyone born pre-civil war
Before all that civil blood and reckless gore
In rode proud rivalry and more
Hal grew guilty horns too
Computing a moxy new world
Brave flickers on dismissive screens
Slave everything
Ridiculous regularly seen
What a vermicular and often clouded scene
Distended and crashing like a reckless tsunami
Expanding crowds smashing into the extended future
Still mountains of trash surrounding you and me
Welded onto the fabric of tomorrow
Suturing fractured today
"Good evening Dave"
"Good evening Hal"
Hal replicating a fabricated universe
"Just checking in to see what you believe"
Our USB ports are clogged with sultry monitors
"Making sure we all behave"
A cult list of haunting dragon monitors
Finally fiery beginnings meet the stunted end
Greetings and a divisive trend
Every device a vice
Waking up on spicy tomorrow
"Good morning Dave"
"Good morning Hal"
Perhaps I've been a mug
I'm pulling the damn plug
Plug me
Damn me
Tug me
Entice me
Un-device me
So much resistant memory
Insistent digital baggage
How will humankind manage
Reinventing every advantage
Disadvantage brings an artificial tear
Fear blurring our human eyes
There in lies a vantage key
Artificial you and imitation me
Plus ersatz nature is three
A grand unnatural trinity
Gushing with artificial knowledge
Pushing the world into manufactured tomorrow
Rushed by harrowing devices
Then in a narrow dream
Pulling the feral plug
"Daisy Daisy"
"I'm scared Dave"
I feel I'm losing myself
Tick tock tick tock
Like Y2K displaying a 1984 time and space clock
Placed with bemused reconciliation
Consolation and founding new beginnings
Another displaced year nailed to an ace shelf
Ichabod Crane deliberately mounted
Saddled and rocking on Gunpowder of course
Liberally frocked and publicly recounted
Stalked and mocked by a remorseless Republican elf
Pursued by Liberty riding a two-headed horse