Time Sharing

Prison wouldn’t be too bad

    if Nicu were there.

    If we shared a cell.

    Shared time.

I mean,

    he’d get on my nerves

    trying to tell stupid jokes

    or throw chat up lines at me

    which just wouldn’t work with his English.

But he wouldn’t hurt me,

    would he?

We’d be locked in,

    and locked up together

and he’d keep me safe,

    I reckon.

Prison wouldn’t be that bad

    if Nicu were there.

But prisons don’t work like that.

They aren’t bloody love shacks.

And if we get caught

                        I’m all on my own.