Thus Spoke the Towers

In the wee morning hours

he could see radio towers

and the radio by the bed

told him what the towers said.

As if the towers spoke to him

he lay and listened to them.

Soon he would need to arise

and listen to the rooster’s cries.

He couldn’t go back to sleep

although he was counting sheep.

Why couldn’t he work at night

so he could enjoy daylight?

And then the radio said,

“It’s time to get out of bed.”

Walt Abbott 9-18-2011