The Bucket List

Fitter
happier
more productive
comfortable
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym
3 days a week
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries at ease
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
a patient better driver
a safer car
baby smiling in the back seat
sleeping well...no bad dreams
no paranoia
careful to all animals
never washing spiders down the plughole
keeping in contact with all friends
enjoying a drink now and then
will frequently check credit at, moral bank hole in wall
favours for favours
fond but not in love
charity standing orders
on Sundays ring road supermarket
no killing moths or pouring boiling water on ants
car was also on sundays
no longer afraid of the dark
or midday shadows
nothing ridiculously teenage and desperate
nothing so childish
at a better pace
slower and more calculated
no chance of escape
now self employed
concerned but powerless
an empowered and informed member of society
pragmatism not idealism
will not cry in public
less chance of illness
tyres that grip in the wet
shot of baby strapped in back seat
a good memory
still cries at a good film
still kisses with saliva
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat tied to a stick that's driven into frozen winter shit
the ability to laugh at weakness
Calm
fitter
healthier
and more productive
a pig ..in a cage... on antibiotics