At The Local Supermarket

Walked into the local supermarket.

One of the assistants came up to me

With a polite smile. "What do you want, sir?"

All that's around us is food,

Vegetables, shampoos, and more food.

I take a deep breath

Well what I want is not more time.

No, I'm not fed up with time,

I mean, what I want is timelessness,

A lot of it. I'd like to rest far, far away,

In a distant land, and think over things

For a century or two.

I just want to live forever, you know

The shop assistant stares at me, at a loss.

There will be a time for death to die,

But right now all that's around us is food,

Vegetables, shampoos, and more food