Geoff Hattersley
The Next Break
Working for this
stupid agency
they like me too
tired to think straight.
I spent eight hours today
folding paper in half
and sealing envelopes
in a large, cold room
with some other losers.
More than two hundred people
iii rows of ten, all of them
blathering on and on,
or singing along
to the loud radios,
all the radios tuned
to the same crap station.
The sort of job where all the time
you live only
for the next break, the next chance
to stand outside smoking
in the freezing wind and rain.
stupid agency
they like me too
tired to think straight.
I spent eight hours today
folding paper in half
and sealing envelopes
in a large, cold room
with some other losers.
More than two hundred people
iii rows of ten, all of them
blathering on and on,
or singing along
to the loud radios,
all the radios tuned
to the same crap station.
The sort of job where all the time
you live only
for the next break, the next chance
to stand outside smoking
in the freezing wind and rain.
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- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
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- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
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- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
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- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
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- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
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- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The