The plight of the homeless hospitality workers sacked
A surge of unemployed restaurant workers are sent,
Onto the streets of London, unable to pay their rent.
Trafalgar Square at night is silent and empty.
But for the homeless rough sleepers, there aplenty.
Hundreds of tents and cardboard box encampments appearing,
Life under lockdown hundreds of catering jobs disappearing.
The city day centres have closed ,no place to wash or shower,
No toilets ! Behind bins and bushes to defecate,the homeless cower.
Cafe closures ,no unsold sandwiches to devour at the end of the day
The newly homeless feel vulnerable as in the back streets in the dark they lay.
Jake a sacked chef, for six weeks on a pavement has laid his head,
Awaiting a call for a room,but the battery on his phone's gone dead.
The hospitality homeless are ill-equipped to be there,
Distressed,shell-shocked suffering financial despair.
The drive to get the rough sleepers away from this deadly germ,
Might transform how we deal with the problem in the long term.
jennifer Malden
Wed 29th Apr 2020 17:40
The whole Corona business is a total disaster for almost any kind of business, shops, restaurants, pubs, cafès, manufacturers, private schools, hairdressers etc. etc. It's more important obviously to save lives, but many people are desperately worried, with no decent future in sight. No-one knows either how long the lockdown or semi -lockdown will have to last either. Very well described. Jennifer