2020.6 Sins of Omission

I am not:
• Baking my own bread
• Remembering to clap for the NHS
• Setting up a new enterprise
• Exercising

I am not:
• Learning how to knit
• Sitting daily in meditative contemplation
• Abating my binge-rewatching sessions
• Exercising

I am not:
• Polishing the floor
• Forging a new neighbourhood spirit
• Lifting my tits on the regular
• Exercising

I am not:
• Spring cleaning
• Defragging my hard drive
• Writing a magnum… anything…
• Exercising

I am not:
• Reorganising my bookshelves
• Delving the depths of old mistakes
• Making the most of all the opportunities in existence
• Exercising

I am not:
• Brewing my own beer
• Re-roofing the garden sheds
• Heading to bed nightly at an advisable time
• Exercising

I am not:
• Rediscovering photography
• Weaving my own bamboo pants
• Gathering nettles for nutritious recipes
• Exercising

I am not:
• Finding fresh new ways to make my brain develop
• Devoting my existence to my accidental pet
• Getting any more fluent in Welsh
• Exercising

I am not:
• Particularly clean
• Lean or green
• Meaningfully occupied at all times
• Exercising

I am not:
• Coaching my (imaginary) children
• Mending any of my ways
• Persuading anyone successfully to finish Will-writing
• Exercising

I am still not:
• Drinking any alcohol
• Hopping off any of my other wagons
• Flagging neighbours as Undesirables
• Exercising

I am still:
• Writing poems (slowly)
• Socialist (to an increasing degree)
• Feeling love and that maybe I can thrive
• Alive

Illustration of Lazarus at the rich man's gate by Fyodor Bronnikov, 1886
Source: Wikiart