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A friend reported the homos

cooing like wood pigeons

as they spurt their wad

to refrain from arousing suspicion

of their public eroticism

I got talking to a young mother

while our kids played

who said that since the area

had switched to Universal Credit

and her income taken quite a hit

she had resorted to selective

escort work

a full professional service

she said

doing only the things she was into

dinners, movies, attractions,

oral, vaginal, some anal

she staggered the price points

at £80 a half hour

£45 for a quarter hour quickie

she had, she said,

to be very strict on timekeeping

people expected handouts

would pay their dues

and expect a chunk more

such was the culture

the service culture

customer always right

she sneered

particularly when wrong

and often wrong

how does the mathematics function that

when added together

all the zero hours contracts

make a sixty hour week

organic commodification strategies

long endorsed by policy.