Jobsekers

Jobsekers

Job Seekers

After being unemployed for a long time I got

a job as a cook in a cafe where people came

for the beer, but the local law demanded

drinkers had to order something to eat before

drinking. Usually it was a burger or a cheese

sandwich. If a sandwich came back uneaten

it was moved to another plate and served again,

but I had to open look under the cheese to be

sure no one had put something there, like

the butt of cigarette and so on.  I knew the game

having been a drinker there until I lost my job

of putting a lid on tins of sardines and mackerel.

 To be working class
when time is good is Ok, but

but sooner or later there will be a downturn

and without proper education poverty beckons.