WHATEVER HAPPENS DON’T TELL ME WHAT TIME IT IS

it seems no matter how much sleep i get
my alertness is determined by a machine
burning a blurry and blood-red verdict on my retinae

if farthest left of all LED digits
is singed a number less than 7
i arise not

unless it is accompanied 
by that little light indicating
if i lived anywhere else in the world
it would be 19 o’clock