                Precariat Blues

                Kneeling in the
                walk-in fridge,
                breathing pink 
                detergent.

                In the deep-fat
                fryer sludge;
                warm, it brings back
                feeling.
                          *

                He saw the blind move, he 
                hit the door hard, he 
                said he’s just doing his job.

                'he’s given us 24 hours to pay
                but what they want …
                we haven’t got that'
                          *

                'Heating broke 
                five weeks ago,' our
                room too cold
                for sleep

                Oh 'my bones ache,
                don’t they really 
                ache. I just 
                cannot get warm.'

                I can’t get warm
                I can’t get warm


written by Gavin Goodwin and Neil Dugmore
produced by Neil Dugmore

This text draws from interviews in: 
Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain 
by Tracy Shildrick, Robert MacDonald, Colin Webster and Kayleigh Garthwaite (Bristol: Policy Press, 2012)



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