Cold Comfort Town

Was a place where careers were pipe dreams,
sold to youths by careers officers for whom the career
move du jour was to be a careers officer,
mis-selling placements on government training schemes
to youths for whom the point of them doing the scheme
was for the employer to attract the government money
for the placement-yes that is right. Youths were trained
as bait to attract money for nothing for their trainers.
Because nothing was what the trainees were going to be taught.