‘Er’

I am one of thousands

And thousands

And thousands

Bankers, winners, drinkers, takers

Players, losers, leaders, followers

On and on we go.

Better to be an ‘er’

Than to admit what we really are

Addicted

No money to live here

The people, combatants 

Anywhere else in the country

Better quality of life they say

Yet I live here

I love here

The rambling of an obsessed man

A worker

A smoker

A naval-gazer

A Londoner

A place so unbelievable when compared to the

Believable we were taught we were able to

Believe 

Who would leave so willingly?