Lazy!
Henry Lindsay 1979
Lazy, that’s what you are,
Afraid of work, Afraid of scars,
Afraid to plow the fields that yield the crop,
Afraid to dust, sweep, and mop,
Why are you so lazy, may I ask?
Why can’t you get off your calloused ass?
I hope you have inferred from this,
Nothing’s worse than laziness,
Remember, that nothing in this life is free,
So lazy, is no way to be.
About this poem
The poem was written and published in the latter part of 2001, and was an ode to a lazy co-worker. The inspiration to write this came after many frustrating and challenging weeks of working an opposite shift from them, and the constant extra work load they were leaving for me to complete. Reaching out to management would have caused unnecessary animosity creating a poor report between their shift and my shift, however, taking out my frustration with this individual by writing down my angst, and by verbalizing in the poem what I would’ve loved to say to them directly, was both fun and relaxing. more »
Written on October 18, 2001
Submitted by HALindsay on August 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 360 |
Words | 81 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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