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Poetry Tuesdays do roll around quickly and it really has to be this one this week. Previously Published in The Stylus Poetry Journal Online. To all those who will march against this vicious government on the weekend, and to all those who have spoken out against their attacks on the sick and disabled. Thankyou! Filling out the forms for a disability pension The doctor asks me how much can you do? How much can you not do? Can you walk a hundred metres unassisted? Can I get a job by walking a hundred metres? Can I earn a living by tying up my shoelaces? No, I am not incontinent just terminally inconsistent. No category for this? I have to rate each breath with degrees of difficulty like an Olympic diver my reward - a gold medal - in how to navigate stone-hearted bureaucracy. Only I am diving into state-sanctioned poverty. Out of the mainstream - and into the shallows.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:40:13 +0000

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