The morning sun left responsibilities

for a lazy boy simply seeking to flee
all the things he knew that had to be done
so he ducked and he covered and he ditched and he run
to the bottom of the beach and the top of the hill
just in hopes of escaping the list that had filled
the day in front of him with such dread
’til he found hisself a hammock for to rest his head

where he escaped the fate of the missions of the day
til the seeping thoughts they entered and they wouldn’t go away:
"What you don’t do now will be waiting for you later;
not a silken caterpillar but a hungry alligator!"
and "the sooner tasks are done, the sooner rest is earned."
These were the thoughts, into his head were burned.
So the boy got out of hammock without being asked
and headed out to do all that, which he had been tasked.

First he did that job, and then he did this ‘un.
It was in this way, he would lay into the mission
of accomplishing all that he had set out to do
by reading every item on the list and running through
each one with a line because it was done.
Then he’d go off and have guilt-free fun.
And so the man’s plan began with his best ability
as he worked through his day-long responsibility.