DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE

Ten years living on middle rate, trying to be an independent thing.

I don’t know how I survived living with a blackhole ring.

She was my only love, when no one else was around.

I live in a welfare state, loving a cold grey thing

A slab on the soiled ground.

Six by three or

 Three by six

  Either way

     It’s me

Through life and death she kept me strong, always within

but wrong was right there in the ground she was my happy thing. 

I hate to use the word happy for me it does not sing but

I can hear the Ma and her Dublin brogue, singing

Molly Malone alive, alive oh!