Ordinary People

Ordinary People

They go to the supermarket

pick up their children from school

sit down to their teas in the kitchen

then watch telly through the evening

Sitcoms and serials and the usual

channel-hopping to find something cheerful

or chat shows and game shows perhaps

but usually switching off the News

Sometimes they go out to the pub

drink and have a chat with their friends

or go and see the local football team

if City have a game at home

They are mostly married, often many years

with a nice little house in the street

maybe a car parked right there outside

and a garden to sit out in when it’s fine

They have their worries, of course

and which of us cannot say they do?

with prices going up it seems daily

yet, once again, no pay-rise on the cards

And when they’re in town on a week-day afternoon

they enter cafes for a coffee

or shops to buy a Lottery lucky dip

and hope it brings about a change of fortune

They sit right next to you on the bus

in the morning when they’re travelling  to work

and listen to their iPod music

to help make time pass a little faster

No, they don’t look any different

just ordinary people in so many ways

nothing to make them stand out in the crowd

or to show that they are anyone special

Their appearance is not evil

nor are they marked as criminal types

but the sites they visit on their computers

are a world away from online shopping

Their viewing and chatting and grooming

goes on sometimes late into the night

but when you talk to them next morning

you’d never know they were any different

Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2017