You can book a consultation
and get free medication,
that
from the local council
is a must.

You're number sixteen in the queue
do you hang up or hang yourself?

Monday and it's a free day
but like all free days
it comes with a price.

Gotta do the laundry
I have watched it piling up
and it haunts me,

a slow cooker,
no
not me, but
something I'll put the dinner in
to eat at half past three.

Shopping is like an ocean
that is lapping at the door,
wading into town with bags in hand
buying more and more.

already flippin' knackered and
not yet out of bed.

Half of them are stark-staring
afraid of the dark but won't let the light in
and the other half are on the lam
dodging the man in the
Black Maria.

When you're thinking of doing
but you're toing and froing
knowing that toing and froing
is a Victorian phrase and
digressing doesn't help.

So we say
it's on the to-do list
and it is until we scribble it out
because we know
to and fro
is what we do best.