Abstinence

It isn’t just possessing extra time,
though I am old and clearly doing less.
I always got some leisure; I’d a prime
directive to indulge myself, I guess.
I read so much and viewed it as no crime,
I picked the English major to address
my need to read and puzzle. But when young,
much time when up in smoke or for my tongue.

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