Title: “Retirement”

Today, what?

Cards and gifts, but the honorees

are already gone.

Cleaning out papers, and

handing over keys.

I’m not ready yet.

Probably should send some emails,

personal and professional.

There is paralysis because

my choices are infinite,

and today filters itself

through each choice, each

possibility, until there’s

no time left, and nothing’s

done, except the card and

gifts and no one to

give them to.