The Political Clockworks Are Running Erratically.
You can no longer count on them to provide you with timely information. The clockwork's chimes go off at odd hours and the hands seem to move at random sometimes. If you set an alarm on that clock, it may ring when you least expect it and almost never when you planned for it to ring.
The new clockworks are not like the old, dependable clockworks. They're more like the clockworks that were described in Tom Robbins' 1976 novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Unpredictable and seemingly random, they explained all of the odd and weird things that were going on all around us, or perhaps just described those things.
Surreal clockworks, really, but like the clockworks of the universe. Things happen, but not predictably and not at any certain time. It's a new sort of timekeeping we're having to do now. A strange, unusual sort of timekeeping. You just never know when an asteroid is going to land on your house, really.
This sentence has warts. This sentence is made of clay. And if that makes no sense to you, buy a copy of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, shut off your regular clock, and read it again or for the very first time. The Clock People understood the clockworks, to the extent that they can be understood.
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