Call Me Lazy

“You’re a lazy bones,”
You say
As we lie late in bed. 

But my aching, aged bones
Feel smooth and sturdy
Beneath the tender touch
Of your fingertips
On my thin skin. 

“Call me lazy,”
I reply
As we lie late in bed. 

But I will linger late
In this hard bed
with your skin on my skin.
Call me lazy,
But not crazy.