"Strike" by Ruth Wilson

My son is trying to
figure out why his
dad has gone from driving to
walking about with a
placard saying more money and
why he
always comes home without any

His dad is trying to
figure out where his
son goes every evening with a
tin cup and his toy monkey and
where the
money on his dresser keeps coming from

And I am trying to
figure out how to
explain the union to the boy and
childhood to the man who
doesn't seem to have had one