COSY WARM IN DEFIANCE DESPITE IT

using your legally entitled
'help & assistance'
of the benefits system uk

is like a cold hug
from a creepy uncle
that chills
your wet bones numb

but who might you hope

hand you a folded ten
greasy strings attached
out from his cardigans
ratty detritus pockets

so you might you hope

attempt an almost life
tethered & dependent
to his fickle windsock
with grey workshed twine

cosy warm in defiance despite it

PROP SATCHEL CLEARLY EMPTY

he wears four maybe five layers
& maybe a cap 

maybe a loose scarf

she wears one layer
& if a cardigan 

then its made of nothing

in the hollywood film tvs

where the funerals

are always autumntime

the rusty leaves blown 

under perennial trees