Let's NOT Go Gentle

The wind came and the leaves fell and why do I think every year they won’t do that? Why every autumn do I just assume somebody in that that celestial control room is about to make an announcement: “Sorry to have alarmed you. We now regard winter as a failed experiment so no, no winter anymore; no death.”But then they all fell, just in 24 hours.Twelve hours ago I looked at the Almanac and saw that the sun set at 6:04 last night. Today it sets at 6:01, tomorrow at 5:59. The light sinks away like water from a leaky basin. Then we really lose big when we're forced turn the clocks back, and what weekend do we have to face that wholesale loss I then wondered, this weekend, next weekend, the weekend after that?I looked that up too just now: Brazil, Fiji, Syria:all these countries turn their clocks back before we do, some even tonight. But have three glorious weeks before we’re faced with the jarring sight of people ducking in and out of shops in the utter darkness. I can never get over it in those first November, I get so confused: "Shouldn’t these people all be home in their bathrobes and slippers?" I keep thinking.  I almost want to see us all of us dressed that way, in PJ’s in line at the Post Office and the pharmacy. It would be our way of saying “You can’t fool us! This isn’t 4pm; it’s midnight! Now for God's sake bring back day!”