Time as imperialism

The calendar year is an imperial narrative.
The seven-day week is an imperial infliction.
Circannual holidays are imperial flag-posts.
Mechanical time is an imperial installation.
The merchant workday is an imperial offering.
Greenwich MeanTime is an imperial sanction.
The looming weight, uniformly imposed
as albatross and as anchor.
The new time-imperialists will get their
way with those left: the rural, the feral, the frail.
Feed them a thread, that leads to a string.
They'll follow the string, until it leads to a rope,
and from that rope every vestige of what was will be hung by the neck.