Essential workers are retiring early
due to dynamic waging
when wages increase on the demand 
put upon key workers during busy shifts. 

So Morag, a thirty-three-year-auld 
Healthcare Support Worker last year 
is now a thirty-four-year-auld millionaire 
retired to a villa in Andalucía.

‘Ivrytime a patient buzzed 
or a nurse asked, ye busy? 
the k-ching o’ a till 
rang like a bell in ma heid.’ 

While Tom, a twenty-year-old Oxonian who
aspired to be a politician last year, 
is now looking into the care sector 
and championing ‘our NHS.’ 

Ross Wilson is a Scottish poet raised in Kelty, a former mining village in West Fife. He lives, writes and works as a boxer and an auxiliary nurse in Kirkcaldy, Fife.
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