By Abriana Jetté

tic tic clicks the innocuous clock 
  tok tic tic tok / time locks / rising stocks 
    stop the tic tok cops I mean clocks from tok ticking 

knick-knacking / whiplashing / resistance tiks
  crowds flock flounder frisk / resilient
    ad hoc committees / commitments / prescriptions 

for persistence / tok and flitter / flap
  between distances / this glittering existence / kiss 
   it / tsk tsk / hiss hiss / Miss not Mrs not Mr not Master / 

just his updated tools / regroup / reboot / tik click 
  lick like refresh cool / latest news / crude rhythmic blues / 
    overconsume / excessive food / rising clocks crashing 

 tocs hit tik those piss kiss views / tok / tok / tik 
   tik / hiss knock / kiss knack / paddy whack old
    boned shoes / silly habit rabbit / you already knew

this world clock / she plays two / double click
  flap flip / tap tap until she’s through / & when 
    she’s through / tok tik / kiss kiss / tik tik / boom

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Abriana Jetté is an internationally published writer whose work has been supported by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and has appeared in Best New Poets, PLUME, Tampa Review, Poetry New Zealand and other places.