Poem: Simon Sweetman, This Is Your Life

I was thinking about how one time we couldn’t afford the bills in the flat - a guy had drawn up a charter, he’d even used the word “vestiges” - there was a flat-meeting because I was dragging the chain.

the power was going to be disconnected, the internet, in its infancy, would no longer slow-crawl at all.

and it was up to me.

time to be a hero.

that’s how …