Drinking for comfort, f*****g for food

A take on a single mums plight

Four different fathers
a monochrome brood
drinking for comfort
and f*****g for food.
Best before blow jobs
use before shags
payment in polythene
half empty bags.
Laying and lying
but only to self
shop soiled, outdated,
left on the shelf

Reviews

[‘Thoughts In Time..]

What people do sometimes looking for a place to feel loved and belong- sadness as it’s self destruction but each has a path to walk- pray people learn to love themselves no matter where they come from- very direct and full of passion and truth- great words- make people think🌹

[Gee]

Fleetingly perhaps. Thank you

[Paul Bell]

Some single mothers do a great job. Some slide into the dark ways. Life is just f*****g tough for some. It's the cycle of kids who you hope prosper in the future.
Great write. Raw.

[Gee]

Ours worked herself into the ground. So much so that we were farmed out to kids and foster homes to give her respite care. I make sure my daughter wants for nowt, without her being a brat, and am to her the dad I would have wanted had he had the balls to hang around

[Paul Bell]

You sure had a tough time. Women are definitely tougher than men in those situations. In a way, it made you into the person you are today. No school can teach that.

[Gee]

Life lessons. Kids are very resilient so at the time whatever happened to us was regarded as " normal " as we knew no different. I was always fostered with my elder brother who was a hardy so and so, therefore we never got grief from the household kids. Well, one tried, the brother flattened him and we spent 2 days confined to our rooms. The fella in question became quite a good friend in later years.

[apennylate]

Rhyming spree, here, and four different means to drink the s**t away... Half-empty bags of outdated law... Some things are best left on the shelf, but when that does not work... Shags in the dark always leave us soiled... Well penned, friend...

[Gee]

Cheers Silente

[Einstein Noodle]

"a monochrome brood " ...the contrast is striking!
"left on the shelf " ... is unforgettable ... well said Gee ... you remind me how easy to forego compassion and empathy in place of judgement ... the "mothers" you speak of are perhaps beyond help .. i picture those who are long on the streets ..have taken a helping hand many times only to recoil from lasting effects ...but the children suffer so much more (in my opinion) as innocent ...your poem is street smart ..very hard hitting .. i read some of your reactions to reviews and understand this comes from first hand knowledge and experience ... my heart, with prayers, to you my friend ... kudos to your fire ..which has intensified of late ;) peace and love
E.

[Gee]

When you're a kid you take it all in your stride. As an adult you just want more than you had for your own family. Thanks E

[Einstein Noodle]

how true how true ... we do our best eh!? peace and joy Gee.

[Neville]

A brilliant take on a very real & universal problem. Anything less graphic simply would not do. This one delivers a kidney punch just when needed.....N

[Gee]

Cheers Neville, the environment in which I was raised

[Neville]

Hey, sentiment well and truly reciprocated. All Good Things, N

[Samuel Dickens]

Well-written and tough, you describe many in our society. Shouldn't tell stories, but one or two might be my kin. As I have seen, either sex can sink into such a gutter. Some can be pulled from there, but others not.

[Gee]

Cheers Samuel

[Tony Jordan]

Wow - move over John Cooper Clarke - there's a new social conscience in town with six guns of hard-hitting phrases and smokin' metaphors.
Top write Gee!

[Gee]

Evening squire, 'ope youre ok son. Childhood memories of the street I was dragged up in.
Thank you me ol' mucker

[Tony Jordan]

The strict hold the Roman Catholic church had on our community meant many were sent to slave-labour laundries and such if they had kids outside wedlock. The troubles and then the sex scandals have removed that 'strictness' - now 4 kids from one family are just as likely to all have different dads as anywhere else!

All good here thanks matey. How's yourself?
When I saw the beginning of the 'donkey' joke to Ken, I thought "He's bragging again about the size of his...ahem...' - lmao.

[Gee]

Master Simms put me firmly back into the box I wriggled out of, sorry, the extremely talented Master Simms.
All is well thanks, off to Crete for 7 days Sunday....food, drink and loafing, can't wait.

[Tony Jordan]

Haha
Crete - has that come round already? The time is flying.
May I refer you to the following clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5i1cJIwE7M

[Gee]

I will view when I surface tomorrow.
Have a good evening

[Tony Jordan]

lol - it's just the 'you lucky basta*d!' sketch from 'Life of Brian' mate.
You have a good one too Gee
(big hugs)

[Ken Simm.]

When I taught in the inner city I knew these people. And young one's of both sexes as well.
And we call ourselves an enlightened society.
A social comment writ large and well crafted here.

[Gee]

I grew up in a 3 father family, mum married to two of them, both arse holes, but that's another tale. Many a child on the estate bore little or no resemblance to their siblings.
On a lighter note, that means here comes the bullshit, I think my dad was a donkey, because whenever I asked mum why he did the bad things, she always said " I don't know son, eeyore, eeyore, eeyore to av known better !!!"
Cheers Ken

[Ken Simm.]

I think the answer to that joke is don't give up the day job.

[Gee]

Lol, it worked for Basil Brush......I know, I know, where is he now

[Ken Simm.]

Working as a toilet cleaner in Coventry I think.

[Gee]

Sent, or there of his own free will, either way it's a sh....best not say that

[Poetic Beauty]

This is an honest tale of how life/people can be

[Gee]

And when you live amongst it, as bad as this sounds, you regard it as normal.
Thank you

[Poetic Beauty]

I try not to judge people or the things they have done.

[Gee]

Best way. Judgemental is a sure way of your own arse getting bitten in the future

[Poetic Beauty]

Yes and we never know what caused the person to do the things they've done in life.

But there is always exceptions. Something that can not be tolerated.

[Carol Cashes]

Well,well, Gee, this is different and profound. Nicely done,

[Gee]

I was brought up, 1 of 7, by my mum on an estate of single parent families, most with kids born to more than 1 dad. All taboos broken in some houses.
Thank you for the read and review

[Carol Cashes]

This helps explain your fierce devotion to your daughter. I commend you for having the spirit and the instinctive knowledge that there is another way to live. Some never overcome the accident of their births.

[Gee]

Thank you. No point dwelling on the past, I had a mum who worked her fingers to the bone and a desire to make sure I never wanted for anything.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

doing what we need to to survive and take care of our children...the judgmental will boo-hoo it...taboo it, but those who really get it...will hush and just understand instead of put labels on people.

[Gee]

We all have our own glass houses, some though would never admit to it.
Cheers Jacob