Wife on a trip
Kids gone for years now
I posed my death mask today
I slumped my head forward
Pretending I died
Then imagined being discovered
Sitting upright, not yet putrid
Maybe they’d think I was only napping
Waiting to be useful again
I recognize my growing irrelevance
And it’s okay
But just barely
[Living into my late 60s, adjusting to retirement, there are more things to prepare than just drawing up a will]
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