Salvador Dali had a thing for clocks and watches
Letting time run off the canvas in a surreal fashion
Giving way to nightmarish visions and new meaning
To the fairy-tale beginnings of, ‘once upon a time’
Even before Jim Croce died before his time
Dali was dreaming of ways to put in time or rather
Put time in a bottle or some other container
Or so it seems if one studies his work long enough
Taking the time it takes to understand the artist
He, a painter of his time, was considered
Quite the trail-blazer, a man before his time
Some said - and others, one for his time, so it
Was difficult to decide which it was in a timely fashion
Although many dismissed him out-of-hand in no time
Refusing to consider that even tinged with craziness
Dali’s time had come and his art was just in time
For a public long stultified by less interesting fare
