Retiring Early Poem by Herbert Nehrlich

A man who did retire early
each night, and was a rather burly
well-fed and stocky specimen,
would always have lights out at ten.

One evening, it was in May,
the month when younger folk will play,
he somehow failed, did not remember
woke up next day, it was November.

This shows the act of breaking habits
should really be left to rabbits.

You see, a rabbit either sleeps
or checks the basement, where it keeps
digested pellets for re-use,
but rabbits always (is this news?)

are in the mood to....well, to hop,
they'll do this easily, non-stop.
So, if a rabbit oversleeps,
he's done his homework, heaps and heaps,

it matters little, but for man
he's got to do it while he can.