Hoodie

Met a hoodie today
A real one not a designer
Conservative or New Labour one
He had two hoods, red blotched face
Spoke up looked me in the eye
Doesn’t like Art but
Likes Painting & Decorating
Mopeds and car mechanics
Long ago he cooked lasagne
Said his elderly looking father
And needs to improved his reading
Introduced them to his social
Worker none of us had met before
I shook his hand hoped to see him soon
His head swept swiftly briefly round
Like a submarine periscope
As he walked away and out