"Loaf About" (Entry 450)

I loafed about. 

Rolled outta bed.  

So didn't get that rise. 

I just earn my bread.

Not much dough in it.

A crumby job, time to move.

It's all gone sour. 

I've got nothing to prove. 

"Added Thrill - No Charge" (Entry 320)

Male models wink and ring the till. 

Names tags show Dan, Sam, Matt or Will

Back you go, increasing the bill. 

Shop owner knows it gives you a thrill. 

"Negative Numbers" (Entry 305)

All encompassing.
Dark, overpowering.
Life ruined by numbers.
Meaningless figures.
Red, not black.
On a page and computer.
In a bank. Intangible.
Supernatural.

Wish not experienced.
What was had.
What was known.
Would that be better?
If not had come to be,
Those things. Those places.
Would not known,
what was lost.
Would not known,
how it can be.
Heartbreak caused by negative.
All known, left to memory.

"Wake Up" (Entry 293)

I woke.
Broke.
Can't smoke.
More rain to soak.
Enough to provoke
Just normal folk.
You know - a bloke.
Wear invisible yoke.
A stab than a poke.
Feels like a joke.
Hidden beneath the cloak,
Truth unspoke'.
Law invoke.
Rights revoke?
We're choked!

"The Mettle of Metal" (Entry 291)

'The Iron Lady' today laid to rest.
In time, it happens to all and the best.
The winners of the bronze, silver and gold.
The military honours of brass medal bold.
Those who are sneaky with mercurial skin.
Those who are Coppers, or Bankers working for 'tin'.
Those who live a precious platinum life,
those who are lead - of many, thought rife!
But each one of us, with rare mettle, all must go
to where we will rust, forever, as it is so.

***********

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven (1925 - 2013)

"Family Cash" (Entry 256)

She died of old age upon her bed.
The family gathered around.
She wanted love, and they - her money.
Couldn't wait to get her in the ground.