"Redeeming Time"

Einstein said time stayed the same
as long as you carried it around with you,
but if you left it behind
it grew longer or shorter
depending on how fast
you tried to run away from it,
which is why saving time
is a waste of time
because you can't run fast enough
for time to stand still;
and that, after all, may be why
I'm saying all this to tell you
the time of day and temperature
compliments your local American National Bank
and to remind you that in a couple of days
we'll start saving daylight
or losing night, I'm not sure which
except I know that someone,
sooner or later,
is going to have to pay the bill
for all this extra time;
and it won't be me.

Stifler, Bill. "Redeeming Time." Science News 75th Anniversary ed. (1 Mar. 1997: S24).