When you are retired

and don't have no clock to punch

no deadline to meet

no threat hangin' over your head

it is so easy to come up with an excuse

for puttin' things off

 

why screw up your whole day

doing somethin'

when you can just do nothin' instead

 

and yet I was raised

to always be doin' somethin'

idleness is the devil's workshop

they used to say

 

yet idleness is kinda like gum

on the sole of your shoe

it sticks in your mind

until you decide to do somethin'

to get rid of it

 

excuses only last so long

and they eventually turn on you

and force you into doin'

what you thought you could delay

 

people will forgive your failings

if they know you are busy

even busy work

is better than no work at all

 

if people ask what you are doin'

just say

I'm workin' on it

that covers it

and makes them feel better

 

by the same token

i wish't this coulda been

a better poem

but like they say

I'm workin' on it.

 

-O.L. Buzzerd

(a work in progress)