Don’t get carried away
scientists say
If you savor your cinnamon-flavored tea
drink it moderately
you’ll live long enough
to reflect on your life
you may outlive
your husband or wife

With moderation
consequence causation
will be controlled
so we slowly grow old
guarding our greenness
as long as we can
But death will destroy
each woman and man

Come what may
our plane will crash one day
We will fall from a height
day becomes night
We jog and we cycle
off to our coffin
so super-fit
we jump into it