When I was a teenager
I couldn’t sleep enough,
Rising on Saturdays
About noon
If not
Later.
My idea was that I got up
At 6:30 to go to school
All week and at 7:30
On Sundays
So I figured
I had to make up for
Lost sleep.
I woke up at 5:30 for
Thirty-two years
To go to work
And now that I’ve been
Retired for nearly
Fourteen years
I’m sleeping late
Again, riding at
Nine. I figure
I’ve earned that
And it feels so good
To lie abed
And know
I don’t have to get up
Any time soon.
It’s about the best thing
About retirement.
Dan Verner
April 8, 2017
Biscuit City 