https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6e2f07 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6... I work all day, and get half-

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6e2f07 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6... I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. : : Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring : I've always loved that description of old style dial phones. Pretty much every line is quotable though - a wonderful, if melancholy-at-times plain-speaking poet.