Klein time

Klein Time

John Clare Stokes

Today I heard a knocking

It was at the degree

Of sixty

I knew he'd be coming

Burning day light, you see.

Upon the red Klein

Huret counter set to zero

A century I expect this time 

Toward Moniac we will go.

Resting at the East Tower  

Huret cyclometer at twenty five

Over the drop bars i cower 

Seventy-five more I cry!

Sand and pines 

Sand and pines

Will the miles ever end

Red Klein way ahead

Slow squares I spin.

Parched in a mirage 

Moniac and the end

There sits ole Rog

Offering me a fig newton.

To Roger Kosch Sessler

March 22, 1932

October 22, 2011