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Just Retired
by John Grey
With gold watch
on the passenger seat,
along with card
signed by thirty plus colleagues,
he drives off
into the sunset.
But, before he
can reach the sunset.
he pulls
into the driveway
of his house,
the one he’s still
making mortgage payments on.
It’s time to scrimp by
on social security and meagre savings.
The sunset will have to wait.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Shift, River And South and Flights. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Levitate, Writer’s Block and Trampoline.
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