Yehuda Pen, Russian/Soviet Lithuanian
Early TikTok Video, From Back When the App Was Mostly Timepiece Repair Tutorials, 1924
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Belarusian Wikipedia page has more).
/// My mensch Mendl’ll mend any ticker.
As a clockmaker, no one is slicker.
Broken wall-clock or watch?
His repairs are top-notch.
But he can’t set the time. (Too much liquor.)
/// Of the clocks he is working to fix,
one says “eight” and another says “six.”
Split the difference at “seven”?
Twenty-five past eleven?
He won’t care, just as long as it ticks.
/// The clocks Mendl can mend’ll run well.
(For alarm clocks he’ll tune up the bell.)
Fresh, clean hourglass sand
he’ll supply on demand
to his Luddite-inspired clientele.
/// Even broken and stopped clocks, they say,
show correctly the time twice each day.
But when he gets them going,
(by speeding or slowing),
that brief accuracy goes away.
/// “All things well-designed had a designer;
if refined, then it had a refiner.”
Some believe, (though it’s odd),
in a “Clockmaker God.”
Reject Darwin for something Diviner.