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Friday 12 November 2021

SECOND JOB

This poem has a second job:

one thousand pounds per letter.

No matter that it’s middling

and there are plenty better.


You may well bleat that

profiteering isn’t in its brief

and that the simple joy of words

should be its sole relief


but times like these are tough;

this poem’s suffered more than most.

So now that you have read it

there’s an invoice in the post. 



[scandal in Parliament about MPs raking it in with second jobs]