the oldest profession
doth bring much needed funds
housewives and mothers walking the streets
to supplement the household income
Mrs Jones is plying her female wares
in a motel suite somewhere
those extra dollars
shall pay the education fees
for her daughter Claire
as day to day living
isn't cheap
mothers and wives working the pavement
at any given time
the money they receive is a bonus
a nice little earner
a few bucks can be most helpful  
as the family budget oft sinks in a well
these women don't haggle
with their clients too much
they give them what they want
and in return get what they need
a dime is a dime
it can be so useful
when the fortnightly paycheck
is so skint
the ladies of the night
aren't always in the game for the purposes of romping
they're lying on their backs
to fill the hole
in the domestic
piggy bank

sorrow's river
floods in tears
the weeping lasts
for many years

sadness staining
the hearts of the bereaved
with a constancy

the soul's eye
ever spills
torrents
of
loss
rising
waters
the
impost

consolation
comes
to
comfort
the
existing
as the inundation
subsides
into
healing

the knee joints
are giving me curry
of late they've not
allowed me to hurry
it's a good thing
that I'm not in a scurry
for if I was my knees
wouldn't flurry

this very day
my arthritic knees
have almost set
into a deep freeze
little movement
from them can I tease
they are stuck
like roots of trees

not being able
to ambulate
is irking me
no old end
how pleasant
it would be
to have knees
that can easily bend

I'm certainly not
going anywhere to-day
as my knee joints
wont let me get away

for me they'll be
no walking to the shop
as my knees have put me
at a bit of a stop