Arlene Corwin writes

Utterly, Utterly Lazy

I can be utterly, utterly -

Quadruple utterly

Lazy.

That’s me.

Tempted to put on my shirt

Inside out,

Backwards, frontwards,

Not caring which route.

Tempted to not put my foot in my shoes,

But to bend the backs, break them

Or any way fake way to get into

Just ‘cause I cannot be bothered to take them

And put them on carefully.

Utterly, utterly is an unfortunate

Euphemized statement,

Meant to confess the degree

With a light delicacy.

Yesiree, that is the real me

Under it all,

Everything else being shawl

To disguise and protect it,

And that’s the absurdity

Of being lazy.

Desidia (Sloth) -- Pieter van der Heyden (after Pieter Brueghel De Oudere)

"Sloth makes man powerless and dries out the nerves until man is good for nothing."