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ALL YO
In our winter edition, we asked you to tell us about your experience of work and what work means to you. We received lots of exciting entries, revealing the different ways in which you interpret work - from long days of labour and pitching business plans, to care work and being a Listener. Here are some of the winning entries.
Work by D
Star Letter
Work, for me
My car, it crashed.
Ain’t what it used to be
My friend, he died.
As a chef for years
Unconscious for months, I woke and I cried
Working splits and AFDers*
3 years on with injuries, life-changing.
I’d get home to my yard
Hurt caused to many, impacts far-ranging
-Tied accommodation on a farm
Now locked in a cell, deemed “unfit” for work
I was tied to work more hours Cheffing, farming, interspersed with showers
But my efforts, made daily, I cannot shirk
16-hour days were the norm
Repairing myself, this work it stops never.
The work I do now, is harder than ever
I’d eat, then sleep, curled up in the warm This was my life, I was happy this way All up until, that one fateful day
*AFD is a term used in the trade, meaning All F***ing Day
