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Retirement
by A. Keith Barton → (All Poetry by A. Keith Barton)
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Don’t creep
If you slow down
Try not to frown
Retire if you must
But watch out for dust

Why quit?
Chew and spit
If you give up
To sit with your pup
Retire if you choose
But you may lose

You talkin’ to me?
I’ve tricks up my sleeve
Retire you say
That’ll be the day
Too much to do
If only you knew

Go for it ole’ man
If that’s your plan
Don’t sit and gripe
Like a senior stereotype
Retirement is for fools
Who play by the rules

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Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on May 28, 2005
Some like working, some hate it, I guess. I retired after 30 years of bureaucratic drudgery, and I can't say that I've been bored one single day since I did - there is just so much to do - and so little time.

Reviewed by Lisa Hilbers
Reviewed on May 28, 2005
Isn't it funny...we work all those years so that we can retire..and when the time gets here..we don't want too!
Humans really are incomplete.
Thanks for the laughs and smiles Keith.
Yeah..go ahead and retire...then spend as much time writing as you can...That way we are all winners!

Lisa

Reviewed by Robin Labenberg
Reviewed on May 27, 2005
I enjoyed this very much..as Jean-Paul Sartre said "We are defined by what we do." Some people need to work it makes them complete. But if you did retire we could all read more work by you;]

Reviewed on May 27, 2005
Some need to work to keep them healthy. I'll say don't retire unless you've found something to do on your own.

Good piece.

Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)


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