Painterly empty hammock between two potted palms on a sunlit terrace overlooking blue water.

Original artwork, not a still

City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York • 1993

Mason Cooley

In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A wry observation about how leisure can become its own kind of labor. Retirement, expected to bring endless rest, instead produces a new craving for escape, poking fun at how restlessness follows a person even after the working years end.

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