Guitars and Poems Between the Snores

Can you do your living dying?
That’s what counts. You’ll do your dying
One way or another. Can you

Do your living while you’re at it?
The old man gets out of rehab
To keep carving unique guitars,

And yes he’s dying doing so,
Maybe even speeding cancer,
But he’s living as he’s dying.

If you left him in the ward, bored,
He couldn’t do living for him.
He takes his catnaps. You take yours.

Then get to work at making things,
Maybe small things, busy living
Guitars and poems between your snores.