Todd and the Time Machine
I
Todd’s time machine
has three settings:
time was
time is
time will be.
II
Sometimes
the time travel sickness
hits him
like a five alarm flu.
III
Returning through the time hail,
through the accelerating centuries
he hears his wife yell
from the ever present
from the basement stairs:
I’m turning off that bloody time machine
your dinner’s getting cold!
This was originally written as a response to a dVerse prompt “Time and What if”.
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Great! I love the ending!
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Thank you, much appreciated.
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His wife brings him down to earth, or perhaps up from the cellar. Nice perspective on time travel.
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Thank you, Frank!
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Love it! Supper waits for no one.
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ha, yes indeed!
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The ending gave me a smile, a jolt of time’s reality. Love this share!!!
Happy new year!!!
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Thank you Grace, much appreciated.
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Fun poem! We all need some one to cut off the machine
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Yes indeed! Thank you!
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I like how you bring us all back to reality, the wife calling from upstairs. Lol.
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Thank you….dinner waits for no one!
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We wait for each other, ( like one hog waits for another).
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i’d like a time machine with 3 settings – such genius!
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Thank you Gina, much appreciated!
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Haha, I love your basement time machine, Jim. At Christmas, the Buddha told me, forget the past — it can’t be changed; forget the future — it’s unknowable; and forget the present — I didn’t get you one. I apologise, and doubly if you already read that one. It seemed apropos.
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Good one, Steve, I’m always up for a Buddhist joke at Christmas! Happy New Year! JIM
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Oh the Nervana of that guy!
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“You are the most thoughtless monk in the monastery.” “Oh thank you, Master. Thank you so much.” I’m stopping now.
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Giggles. Well, MY mind was empty, except for stuff.
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Time travel….perhaps the only thing left to challenge technology. I enjoyed this fun response to the prompt.
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Thank you Mish!
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I think every time machine should have a dead man’s grip returning you to now (and dinner)
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I’ll include one in the design!
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This was a fun response. I think Todd probably needs his wife to keep him tethered to the present. One should probably be wary of those basement time machines.
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That’s the thing with guys and basements, if it’s not time machines, it’s something else!
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I think you’re right!
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They love to spoil our fun, but what the hell would we do without them? Hmmm…
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Good question, Rob….I’m still trying to figure what happens to the time traveller if someone turns off the machine!
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What a wonderful bit of humor!
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Thank you, Beverly, much appreciated!
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Another good ‘un! 😊💕😁
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Thanks, Jano!
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What was for dinner? I bet it was undercooked minute rice. 🙋🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
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Ha!, Of course Todd could have gone back in time to when his dinner was warm!
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Very funny!
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Thank you!
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