Peace and quiet are what I yearn for,
even more so in the golden years.
Instead the phone is ringing “off the hook”
with fake people scams and phishing,
so who has time to read a book?
Yesterday FedX and UPS came twice,
and sent the dog into a fit of barking
calculated to excite.
And others came to dig a trench and add a cable
for high speed internet to bring us up-to-date
that sent the dog a-running and a-barking
and the phone kept a-ringing
so peace and quiet have to wait.
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