Waiting

Waiting

 

For the man to come and fix the boiler but it could be the thermostat

or the thingummy on the wall, the go between.

So many bastard things to go wrong to cost money to heat your ageing bones.

Hallelujah! We’ve got mobile phones.

Waiting for 2022 to strut its stuff at the ball

Waiting for the usual bollocks like the bus

and queuing to do your shopping.

I’m British

So I’m just waiting, waiting, waiting.

“No you’re not, you are Welsh”

Tell that to the geezer that makes the forms then

Cos you are for Queen & Country from birth

until we notify them otherwise.

Waiting for a stroke of luck

or a stroke

because I’m a bit of a hypochondriac on the sly

Every headache a brain tumour

Every chest pain a heart attack

David Attenborough breaks off from the arid planet

to inform us that we are the only mammal that knows it’s going to die.

Could it be today?

I’m not doing much apart from

Waiting.