30th January 2026

 

brief flurry

taken to the ground

ankle lock applied

© Rachel Green January 2026

Wolverhampton, 1988

Dids't thou ever have a boss that thou admired

asks the card drawn from the deck of memory 

and thinking of them all makes me feel tired

for so few of the jobs appealed to me.

My first job was as jobbing gardener, I

would dig and weed and prune for little pay

my next as self-employed myself I'd ply

to those men, often married, for the day.

I worked behind the bar for little wage

and supplemented income playing pool

with falsifying records of my age

in those days it was but a minor rule.

 Of all, there was but one who took my heart,

 and he a lecturer in visual Art.

© Rachel Green January 2026