By Dan Burkitt

 

Life

 

Life is a tube of pringles

You’ll gobble it down.

 

Life is a tube of toothpaste

Half-empty and misshapen.

Life is a tube journey

Sweaty and uncomfortable.

 

Life is a tube of tomato paste

Delicious and blood red.

Life is a tuba

Metallic and loud.

 

Life is a tube of pringles,

Salty and moreish.

 

Life is a thick plank

Life is a quick wank

Life is a five-ingredient recipe

Life is short.

 

Life is a lingering smell

Life is a taxi ride to the hotel

Life is going very well thanks for asking

Life is dull.

 

Life is a book

Life is the chances you took

Life is all the hands you shook

Life is formulaic.

 

Life is maroon playdo

Life is mashed potato

Life is mostly pretty good these days

Life is malleable.

 

Life is a humid night without a fan

Life is a marble statue of a Great Man

Life is an overnight shift

Life is hard.

 

Life is a chat and a beer

Life is a soundwave hitting your ear

Life is happening right now right here

Life is exciting.

 

Life is green or red or maybe blue

Life is a brown leather shoe

Life is a seriously bad bout of flu

Life is odd.

 

Life is a four-stop bus journey

Life is the wheels on a hospital gurney

Life is a pot of honey

Life isn’t free.

 

Life is a chair by the fire

Life is a country cottage for hire

Life is a funeral pyre

Life is warm.

 

Life is a one syllable word.

Life is nothing if you’re not hea