My Next Life
I want to live my life my next life backwards. From old age back to middle class and finally to the womb. Start out dead so that I can get that one out of the way. My body lying inside a coffin 6 feet under with decaying smell. One year and my body is back to normal. People pick out their flowers from my grave side. The tombstone is placed back to the back of a pick-up. A crowd digs out the coffin and pull out the casket from the ground. People drowning in tears surround the whole place. From family, friends and the pastor. It is placed in the centre of the crowd as the sermon goes on. Soon I’m back on the hearse and drove back to the mortuary. The crowd walks backwards as they view my body through the looking glass of the coffin drowning in their tears. A week later I’m taken back to my house where the doctor declares me alive. I wake up to the comfort of my matrimonial bed next to my old wife. Soon my children, grandchildren and great children are laughing at a get together i...