Alternative Schizophrenia:

It seems absurd, somehow, that we,

Being, each and every one of us,

Incredibly complex, multi-layered,

Multi-personalities,

All the bloody time

Can't do things better!

Why can’t we clone, somehow, one part

To stay at home and do the dutiful bit,

The other part off and away, living life

To the full, journeying to the stars

And then returning, rejoining, being one

Again but ready too, to be two or three,

Ready to be loyal and true, responsible

And sensible and also

Ready to live life like there is no tomorrow,

Which, of course, could just be true.

But maybe, in other lives, we do.