..
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 back
seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders
down
the plughole),
keep in contact with old
friends
(enjoy a drink now and
then),
will frequently check
credit
at (moral) bank (hole in
the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road
supermarket
(no killing moths or
putting
boiling
water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of
the dark
or midday
shadows
nothing so
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,
tires 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.
