I Can'T Stand Bad Days Poem by Raj Arumugam

1
Tom sits alone in the bar
staring at
his drink before him
The burly stranger comes in
stares at Tom and seizes Tom's glass
and finishes the drink in one gulp
Tom cries
and the stranger says:
'Damn! Don't cry!
I was joking
I hate to see a man cry
Wipe your tears off
and I'll buy you a drink'


2
'No, it's not that, stranger, '
says Tim, still crying
'I've had a damned bad day
since the start
I went to work
and my boss fired me
And I went home
and my wife was with another man
I went to the park
and I got bitten by a stray dog
I went back to the car park
and just then somebody drove off with my car
And I came here and
at the exact moment I was going to have the drink
in one gulp
and put an end to my life -
you came in and finished my drink,
every dropp of the poison
I had emptied into it'