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Dynamic Waging
by Ross Wilson
Essential workers are retiring early
due to dynamic waging
when wages increase on the demand
put upon key workers during busy shifts.
So Morag, a thirty-three-year-auld
Healthcare Support Worker last year
is now a thirty-four-year-auld millionaire
retired to a villa in Andalucía.
‘Ivrytime a patient buzzed
or a nurse asked, ye busy?
the k-ching o’ a till
rang like a bell in ma heid.’
While Tom, a twenty-year-old Oxonian who
aspired to be a politician last year,
is now looking into the care sector
and championing ‘our NHS.’
Ross Wilson is a Scottish poet raised in Kelty, a former mining village in West Fife. He lives, writes and works as a boxer and an auxiliary nurse in Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Poetry submissions to thursdaypoems@gmail.com
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