Lau, Kai-Chow   a.k.a. Kai, K.C., Dustparticle...

fitter...   happier...    more productivity   comfortable   not drinking too much   regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)   getting on better with your associate employee comtemporaries   at ease   eating well (no more microwave dinners and satuated fats)   a patient better driver   a safer car (baby smilling at back seat)   sleeping well (no bad dreams)   no paranoia   careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)   keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)   will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall)   favours for favours   fond but not in love   charity standing orders   on sundays ring road supermarket   (no killing moth and putting hot water on the ants)   car wash (also on sundays)   no longer affraid of the dark   or midday shadows   nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate   nothing so childish   at a better pace   slower and more calculated   no chance of escape   now self-employed   concerned (but powerless)   an enpowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)   will not cry in public   less chance of illness   tyres that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in the back seat)   a good memory   still crys at a good film   still kisses with saliva   no longer empty and frantic   like a cat   tied to a stick   that s driven into   frozon winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)   calm   ...fitter   healthier and more productive.

                                                ...the Hedgehog   in a cage   on antibiotics