Estate

Yellow polystyrene that decorates the
Road edge flaps in the breeze beside trainers
Tramping to the twenty-four hour garage
On the main road, manned by our Natalie,
Who didn’t make the grade for Asda, so
Had to settle for twenty hours a week
And four kids this last five years. Booze and fags
At knockdown to go with cut-price doughnuts.

From the tenth floor the real-life map of streets
Stretches as far as the Parkside houses.
Land of cleaner pavements and regular
Jobs. More than half the owners out at work
All day. The happy people who worry
How to make ends meet in the Recession