Fuel Poverty

and learn that stealing is wrong.
i like this poem, puts the reader write in the middle, to watch then wonder

'as frost scuttles south
claiming empires
of fingers and toes'

is my favorite part :)

The trees are full of bright red berries in England - sure sign of a harsh winter to come.    
How many old people who can no longer afford to heat their homes will die of cold, while the crooked rats of the business world bask in excessive profits?    
Just one hypothermia case in a box seems too many - all there are more fatalities from that each year than there are from road accidents    
   
Thanks for reading, DarcAnGel - I liked your 'prison jumpsuits' - why not write your own take on this and post it?    
 

and this one is sensitive too. I am moved abra and my fav is the last sentence where you are talking about the bankers in their clothes and is making a pun.

Thanks for keeping this current Anando.
I appreciate your thoughts. Stay well.

short ad clean! felt the shock and realism in so few words... powerful no doubt!

Thanks for reading, CAOS737.

If anything I think the gap between rich and poor has widened since I wrote this. Next winter the elderly have nots will continue to die of the cold & we can only hope it's a mild one.

Best ~ Abra