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Great Britain 2030 by Laura King
The nuclear family has gone supernova
Would-be and tried it, husbands and wives
Are now single old people
Taking up twice as many houses
Paying twice as many bills
Boiling twice as many kettles
Making twice as many meals
Downing twice as many anti-depressants
Being twice as lonely
And environmentally unfriendly
Not to mention statistically half as healthy
As if they had a stablemate to love.
Meantime their offspring have failed twice as many exams
Needed twice as many psychologists
Been twice as neglected and spoiled
Committed twice as many crimes
Spawned twice as many children's homes
Taken twice as many drugs
Suffered twice as many divorces
Committed twice as much suicide
As those who still had
An old-fangled mum and dad.
Who will underwrite the losses
When we can no longer live together?
Who will sweep up the fragments
And squeeze a new society whole?
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