This is based upon what happonde to some who live and died. Up the road from me. This story/poem , is a combination of simula story's in the U K, press.


DIED FOUR YEARS BEFORE

No one know he'd died ,

His bills paid each month ,

With out fail , never missed ,

Taken out of his bank account ,

Then suddenly his account would not ,

Could not comply ,

For it were empty , his back account that is ,

Local council came banging , on his door ,

Then the power supply , gas and electricity ,

Came a banging , hammering , leaving a note ,

''Next time we come we're the police '' ,

''You are warned '', '' oh , yes have a nice day'' ,

The water company came around ,

And cut of his water supply , from the street ,

Time came and went , week by week month in month out ,

Year after year ,

Autumns , Winters , Springs , Summer , came and went ,

Till one day the debt collecting agency's , with the police called ,

Got no answer , and broke the front door down ,

Too find a bag of bones , sat grinning , sightless accusing eyes ,

From an armchair , in front of a television ,

It were estimated that he'd been dead four years at least ,

His abode were isolated , so the stench of his rotten body no one noticed ,

Saw no bloated blue bottle fly's at the windows ,

His son was informed , the son sold his father bungalow ,

And put the profit in to his bank account , and got on with his life

Ken D Williams

The Dyslexic Poet

Needles to say the bills never got paid ,




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Written on 2011-12-14 at 21:47

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
I guess that this would be a fitting finish to a life of quiet desperation.
2011-12-18


countryfog
Stunning that someone could die and not be found for four years . . . incredibly sad that his son never checked on him. I suspect there is another story between the two of them.
2011-12-14