The Poet's Corner...

BOOMER'S LAMENT

Retired.
It’s a hard word to say
Even harder to swallow
So hard that I made up a term:
“Quasi-retired”
Isn’t that cute?

It means if my old colleagues
Launched a mega-project
One with my special skill set
Written all over it
I’d go back in a flash
Arriving early, staying late
And loving it.

The months have flown by
I’ve stayed in touch
An email here, a phone call there
Dropping by just to say “Hi”
My way of saying
“Hey, look, I’m still here!”

Slowly the realization dawns
If that perfect project came along
My friends would likely say
“Let’s get someone like whatshisname”
- or worse yet -
“Let’s get a young whatshisname.”

It’s time to say it out loud
Time to drop the “quasi”
Ole whatshisname is
Retired.
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