Typewriter Rodeo: Welcome back

Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.

By Sean PetrieJanuary 17, 2025 10:45 am, ,

Welcome back

Go ahead, relax!
Enjoy your break!
Don’t let those ToDo lists
Keep you awake

Oh no no no
This is the time to recharge
Put that spreadsheet away!
Have a cookie, live large!

Have some sleepy time tea
At half past noon
Those deadlines can wait
They’ll be here soon

But for now it’s the holidays!
Enjoy the lights on the tree!
Be cozy and lazy
Be whimsical and free!

And now.
It’s over.
The break.
Is done.
That ToDo list seems endless
Nothing to do now but start
With Item #1.

A photo of the typewritten poem on a torn half-sheet of light yellow paper.

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