Retired is being twice tired, I've thought First tired of working, Then tired of not.

Armour’s couplet treats retirement as a paradox rather than a reward: it can feel like a second exhaustion layered atop the first. The speaker is initially “tired of working,” the familiar fatigue of labor and routine; once freed from that, a new weariness appears—“tired of not”—suggesting boredom, loss of purpose, or the draining effort of filling unstructured time. The humor comes from the neat reversal and the compressed logic of a rhyme that sounds like a proverb. Beneath the wit is a pointed observation about identity and meaning: work can be burdensome, but it also organizes days and supplies goals, and its absence can create its own kind of fatigue.