Life on the Stairs

 

Lights, not so much action

I got dressed to go downstairs

There might be neighbors out

Not that there’s a code except

For fire extinguishers

But decorum here and there,

Only a little,

Is just fine

 

Could this be retirement

(if so, a rehearsal for)

A quieting of life in stages?

Contemplatives want this

Though I don’t have a card

Maybe I could take a class

In silence as a sacrament

 

C L Couch

 

 

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