Ten Minutes

I am 50
Teaching
My late class
From 8:00 to 10:40
Telling my students they
Have ten minutes head start
Before I am on the road as my night
Vision is getting pretty blurry with
A very slow recovery from bright
Lights so they scurry out as
They know I am Popeye
The sailor when I say
What I means and
I means what I
Sez about my
Night blind
Driving
And
It is 10:45 pm
And they have an
Evening yet to enjoy
And I am off for home
To watch an episode of
Taxi, Cheers or Frazier to
Relax then off to bed up by
4:50 am for decades how we
Do all we do I do not know
Only that is was in hind
Sight the best jobs
We ever had
Friends we
Still ever
Knew.