They’re like some alien culture’s hieroglyphs

these utility quotes, scrolling down my screen.

Fixed price or variable? TV and broadband scheme?

My eyes are stuffed but still I’m grudged to sniff

the tricks tucked in the tariffs and warily choose 

which deal might steer my budget round the reef.

My parents weren’t coerced to skirt such cliffs:

back then you’d pay flat rate for ...

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We live in fear

Of putting the electricity on

We live in fear

Of the next bill to come

We freeze in desperation

As the gas dies down

We live in fear

Of people in dinghy boats,

Though we know none of them

They make us fear…

The bus we can’t catch

The train we can’t ride in

The pub we can’t go into

Whilst they unpack

Fresh Harrods s...

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