Mrs Sisyphus

• "That's him pushing the stone up the hill, the jerk"
• "jerk" / "kirk" / "irk" / "berk" / "dirk"
• "The absolute berk"
• "I could do something vicious to him with a dirk"
• "Think of the perks, he says"
• "What use is a perk, I shriek"
• "or go for so much as a walk in the park?"
• "He's a dork"
• "A load of bullocks is nearer the mark"
• "that feckin' stone's no sooner up than it's rolling back all the way down"
• "And what does he say? [...] Mustn't shirk!"
• "But I lie alone in the dark"
• "feeling like Noah's wife did when he hammered away at the Ark"
• "My voice reduced to a squawk, my smile to a twisted smirk"
• "while, up on the deepening murk of the hill, he is giving one hundred per cent and more to his work"