Lament For An Alarm Clock (or not...)

I set my alarm for four in the night,

But obviously that isn't right.

My clock, lovingly christened Mike,

Thought 'Far too early - I'm on strike!'

I'm a machine, but I'm not fit

To do my duty and be hit.'

So Mike kept quiet the next day,

Not knowing how he'd have to pay.

I woke up, thinking 'That was good,

To sleep till seven like one should.'

Until I realised 'My God,

Mike should have beeped, but he did not!'

I swore until I could no more:

"You always woke me up before!

Why this, whyever, and why now?"

Mike thought to himself 'Stupid cow...

You don't respect me, dude, and hence

I stand up to this violence.'

Never could Mike survive my wrath,

I killed him in my bubble bath.

It drowned his helpless little beep;

Disobeying clocks I cannot keep!

naaw am 19.3.08 10:00