Bonus
 
As the calendar shoved me into my 60th year,
assuming like mum and dad, a short shelf life,
I waited for ill heath to finally come and collect.
 
Researching on Dr Google, I found one monstrous disease
whose symptoms seemed to match like the winning
numbers in a lottery with a dreadful prize.
 
Overdosing on GP visits, shame corkscrewed
my stomach at the sighed Her again…  
humoured with tests and then a talking to-
 
Covid cancelled signs were pasted over Casablanca, Ascot,
friends and family dinner:  but on the day, biker-chick chic
in leathers and saucy Grayson Perry scarf flown like a pennant,
 
we brushed verges in a wall of death dip, wove past champing
Porches, BMWs, Mercs, in kiss my exhaust audacity
to the front of a traffic queue log jamming into Margate.
 
A virgin biker since March lockdown, I added this
to my late harvest of: you, travel, middle aged mischief,
and decided that everything is a bonus now -
 
Fiona Sinclair

If you have any thoughts on this poem,  Fiona Sinclair would be pleased to hear them.