pins and needles
–noun
1.
a tingly, prickly sensation in a limb that is recovering from numbness.—Idiom
2.
on pins and needles, in a state of nervous anticipation: The father-to-be was on pins and needles.
Origin: 1800–10
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"By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour."
(Victor Hugo)
there are so many tictoc...
there are so many tictoc
clocks everywhere telling people
what toctic time it is for
tictic instance five toc minutes toc
past six tic
Spring is not regulated and does
not get out of order nor do
its hands a little jerking move
over numbers slowly
we do not
wind it up it has no weights
springs wheels inside of
its slender self no indeed dear
nothing of the kind.
(So,when kiss Spring comes
we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
lips because tic clocks toc don't make
a toctic difference
to kisskiss you and to
kiss me)
e.e. cummings
