IRREVERSIBLE

Sticks & stones is an irreversible binomial
Like fish & chips, bread & butter, kith & kin

TICK

A two-time, all-time, pair of dancers
Stunned senseless, in costume

Bones long-broken or you wouldn’t know

TOCK

If it’s irreversible, reverse it

Worse things happen at sea
A mother says to a daughter, who

Ever after on the beach, sees worse things
Come in on the waves

Enter the uneasy silence for life

A stiff breeze blowing through

Chips & fish, butter & bread, kin & kith
Stones & sticks

TOCK TICK