he was scarcely awarefelt leftie stretch between his legswas up against his crotch felt her reachlong grip the quilt with the tines of her claw

   soon  shed get up

hed feel a chill seep her warmth dissipate from the depression her body made

Time to rise an shine hed ask

   not a bad way to wake

                             head and shoulders above those stretches of employment when he was wakened by an alarming clock

he had compassion for everyone whose ears were scalded

                                                                made him chuckled

he hoped somebodysomewhere had that compassion for him

his wife was lousy with alarms

itd bark

shed start

he silenced it

               wishing it had a throat he could strangle it by

   then gently hed stroke her shoulders her back Baby her  slowly rouse her

he set the ALARM early to buy her time to wake without duress of running late

hed help her out of bed get a full body hug a big kiss walked with his arm around her to the bathroom started a shower tumbled a towel her robe in the dryer for when she was out  made coffee  breakfast 

                                                                                          took her bags down to the car as she dressed

he waved to her until the car went around the corner

went back inside

set another ALARM to wake for work

                                       or went back to sleep because it was the weekend

he supposed it took those decades of work to earn leftie

0822,  day-between-2-Ts,  13  3. 24

Nilsson  Gotta Get Up  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRh2PRa1tU