Time To Think.
A twenty two year old boy
with the original dead-end job
is stuck with nothing.
He is knackered after work
and he goes to bed
before ten every night of the week.
At weekend he goes out
drinks and looks at girls.
He rarely talks to them
and when he does it is because
he has forced himself.
He drinks too much
and gets into trouble
by doing silly things
that he thinks will get laughs.
But the laughs don’t come
-only fists.
When he gets home
he is met with verbal abuse
from his father
whilst his mother sometimes
opens his bedroom door for him
and puts a glass of water by the bed.
On Sunday’s he runs off his hangover
by playing sport.
He doesn’t care whether he wins or loses
and so he invariably loses.
Before he knows what he is doing
it is Monday, and he is lying awake
in the dark looking at the clock,
waiting for the alarm to go off.
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