The Fine Print

A reminder to customers of South East Water

A local flavour to this morning’s little burst of spontaneous verse. The problem of interrupted water supply arises with tedious regularity in our area and it always seems to coincide with periods of heavy rainfall. They — the water company — have one job. (To pump money from the bottom to the top, of course.)

From: South East Water
To: Our Valued Customers

Under the terms of the contract
to which, unthinking, you agreed,
you entered a legally binding pact
while barely paying cursory heed
to detail, which states in point of fact
that you will pay us. It is not decreed
that we, in return, must always act
in good faith. That is not guaranteed.