A Man

 

Happiness didn’t intrude on him too much

so instead he took to filling himself with booze,

which zinged his mind, sent him dancing

(after a fashion) home most nights.

He became known for dancing,

which was not to his advantage; it was a style

of dancing that people considered unseemly,

so they left him to himself, to dance himself home.

Made him very angry with everyone, he took to arguing

with himself, but in his isolation, he lost his volume

control, found himself kicked out of the bars onto the streets;

the streets where the traffic passes in an unending blur.

There seemed no reason not to argue with a blur; he did

continually, eventually becoming physical,

but the traffic didn’t stop