I’m sure they won’t be satisfied

until the day is forty-eight hours long

and still with only a few hours sleep

available between work and death;

they would find a way,

by shifting digits, by claiming

the Earth actually needs to go round

the Sun twice

to constitute a year, or just by simply

brow beating into the kids

that a day is twice as long as they think

by sending them too school for longer

and forgoing the activities

that make them become who they are;