Have You Lived?

Did you skip school

Make prank phone calls

Get set up on a blind date

Call someone a fool

Shoot a gun

Watch someone’s breath begun

Cry yourself to sleep

Watch a pet fall of its feet?

Fly in a plane

Visit another land

Travel to the opposite side of the world

Stand at the Grand Canyon

And call?

Vote donkey

Watch democracy die?

Serve on a jury,

without losing your mind?

Got lost,

Was lost

Scream get lost!

Felt loneliness’ frost.

Play cowboys and Indians

Recently coloured with crayons.

Play cops and robbers,

Have an unnatural fear of clowns.

Sing karaoke, even a duet,

Loud and proud.

Pay for a meal with only coins and sweat.

Laugh until your drink came out of your nose,

Catch a snowflake on your tongue,

Write sensitive prose?

Have a child

Buy a pet

skinny-dip with a friend,

you had only just met?

Go fishing

Gone fishing

Catch a fish

Row a boat

Scream downhill on snow

Ski on the end of a rope.

Fly a kite

Go camping, sleep in a caravan

Pitch a tent,

Ride a motorcycle,

Take a bet.

Bungee-jump into a ravine?

Cuddle in front of a drive-in screen,

Until the glass fogged up,

And you were corrupt.

Did something that could have killed you?

Have a regret that will always be with you?

Ride an elephant,

Smell a camel,

Eat cookies for a day,

Live on TV dinners in May.

Steal a traffic sign, and

Attach it to your bedroom wall?

Like a boy.

Crash a car into a pole,

Get admitted to hospital for 24.

Get locked up by the pigs.

Donate blood.

Get fined for speeding,

get a piercing, get a tat,

buy a four wheel drive vehicle,

like all the other fools.

Buy your dream car

get married

file for divorce

Fall in love

Discover irreconcilable differences

Like all the rest.

Pay for a stranger’s meal,

buy sex just to feel?

Drive over the speed limit,

publish a book

eat snails

Swim in the Ocean

dive with a tank

get smashed?

Fall back to earth?

And love Major Tom

to the end.