Friday Afternoon in The Fleece

Old Rosie Cider on sale

at 6.8% proof

that you don't need to read

books to expand the mind.

Friday afternoon,

I've been to Elland

back to The Fleece

and there were just 3

of us drinking at 3

on a Friday afternoon.

No "thank fuck it's"

or "piss off early tomorrow's"

here...

Not enough money in one job

to feed two never mind 3.

No 9-to-5,

Monday-to-Friday life

for those travelling steerage

through the 21st century.

I'm lucky me,

over the hill,

on the downslope

to soylent green

by the time these cunts

have finished picking

society apart

and flushing it

away .