Retirement Blues

Retirement Blues

1.
Conversation overheard at a park bench:
My wife asked me,"What are you going to do today?"
I said,"Nothing."
She said,"You did that yesterday."
I said,"I wasn't done yet."

2.
Actually I'm getting a bit full of music,
and instruments, and the back yard,
and computer games.

Wish my volunteering experience
hadn't taken a weird turn south.

But what the hay, I'm easy
to get along with.
As long as there's still
chocolate chip cookies.

Got a new appointment to donate blood.
Feeling a bit more ferrous.

Nobody has ever asked me
to donate sweat or tears.

I've been producing a lot
of the former lately.

But not the latter.

I'm too white to sing the blues.


Doug Palmer August 2009