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Robert Melliard
Robert Melliard
(20 - 5 - 1953 / Georgetown)
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Robert Melliard Poems
- This Economic Crisis My son has given up his job: he ...
- Jewellery They never bought each other diamonds, rubies, ...
- Domestic Bliss Or Blitz? Some couples argue all the time; ...
- Waiting For My Grandchild You may be born any day now, any ...
- Trampled On Most suicides occur here in the West, where ...
- Asturian Raised Granaries Horreos and paneras are so ...
- Not Really Poetry It's still the main problem: there are ...
Brought up in Kent, England. Studied English at Cambridge University. Didn't take full advantage of that privilege in my working life. Now live in Oviedo, Spain. Married with three grown-up children. more »
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This Economic Crisis
My son has given up his job:
he survived for almost a year
but finished up stressed-out.
He worked fourteen hours a day
for 1,500 euros a month.
He is a land surveyor;
he studied for five years
to get his degree.
That was his first job
and he is disillusioned.
One night they kept him in the office till 5 a.m.
then he had to go to work again at 8 a.m.
and measure accurately all day.
If he made a mistake
the company would lose money
and he would be responsible.
Another night they had him measuring by lamplight:
the job had ...
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