Scene 48 - Retirement Party

Sometimes I think that I can do anything

But then I sit down and I qualitatively analyze my acute sense of awareness for

my environmental surroundings

And I realize I’m not as cool as my doctor prescribes

I’d like to think that I’m worthy of your attention but I haven’t earned much

of anything

Every evening I crawl in bed and in my head I question the words spoken to me

Maybe 5 years isn’t too much to ask, how old I act isn’t enough for you to take

me seriously?

All the knots wedged into my spine keep me in line a little pain never hurt

anybody

I like to walk standing pretty tall but I’m going to fall if my eyes leave the

ground in front of me

It’s pretty easy to slip on some ice and it isn’t nice to fall down hard on

Milwaukee

Cap it off and take the loss, a good captain goes down with his ship and a saw

in hand

Carpentry was never much of his thing but if he wanted to live, this was his

last chance