A brawl
A curse
A bone
An axe
A briar
A slit
A stump
A ruse
A scam
A scab
A slap
A shattered, battered
Song, that's  
Wrong
And limp
And bad
And so
With dirt
And sweat
You get  
You filch
Your stench
You stamp
In tears
For years
A dearth
Of love
Of hearth
Of hope
Of home.

Simon Piesse