It's now been ten days since I observed a team of council workers blocking off some steps that I regularly use on my way into town. The steps need repairing and so the men also put up a sign informing us of the danger.

Naturally this closure has caused myself and others a lot of inconvenience when carrying heavy bags back from the shops.

Being unemployed and on a daily basis seeing all the work that needs doing to improve the town and its environment not being done, it just pisses me off that the powers-that-be aren't able to draft in people in circumstances such as myself to do the work.

COMPOSITION

"Well Sir
You can eat
A Mars bar starting
At either end,
Melt it down
Into its constituent
Parts, or use it as
A measure of worth:
One bite and
She's interested,
Two bites and
It's a deal."

I was able to do a small favour for a friend recently; nothing much, just a bit of research on the internet and a few follow-up phone calls...but it's nice to be asked. At least he was thinking of me and acknowledged my humanity. It's just the little things in life that matter.

AWAKENING

February feet
Face standing stones,
Light batters down the morning;
Shepherds could be sailors here.

ALL FOR ONE

She dropped
A stitch in time
To save nine.

The other eight
Had never seen
Her naked before.