Retirement Reading. FW Finney.

Retirement Reading

I read more now

than I did while
I was teaching.

I’m not joking:

I can pick and choose

from any shelf in my study,

sans guilt, sans deadline,

duty free.

I read three cats’ minds.

And my neighbor’s lips.

The first and last pages

of Finnegan’s Wake.

Listen, just before tea

I read the tag

on my teabag.

And look, here’s a note

I just wrote

about what to read

next.

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