Pick up the leaflet
pick up a pen
Rate on a scale of nil to ten
how broken is your heart
how much your life is rent apart
Rate your mental state
Is it three or six or eight?
Rate on a scale of nil to ten
Where nil is
I don’t give a toss about them’
And ten is
‘I’ll never feel intact again’
Rate on a scale of one to one hundred
How many died
and how many live
How many flying ones you give
Rate on a scale of one to twenty-four
how many floors
how many storeys
What is the score
you’ll give to the Tories?
How much do they care?
How much more can you bear?
How much are they willing
to foot the bill?
Rate on a scale
from zero to nil.
This poem was published on the Poetry24 website on 16 November 2017.
