British workers are the most depressed in Europe
Daily Mail, 1 October 2012
If you want to be able to see
the dark, go shine a light
down a well that’s fathoms-deep.
Cold sweat stones seep back
like creatures into the deep
but in the abyss there blinks
a light, unsurprising since it’s you
who dropped it in there yourself.
For a more satisfying glimpse
of a dark that refuses to be lit
by your flashlight, fathom instead
beneath this ice-crust of skin,
into the unwell where the pail
comes up dryer than it went in.
(c) 2012 Slush Poet
