If Only He Would Go Away

Freeverse

We rather wish that someone would

     lead him to a tree.

They can be so useful

     for life and death.

He might look more elegant

     from a distance.

But this one decides to join us

     in this bar,

sits at our table, displaying

     his filthy fingernails,

his rather snotty tissues, sniffing,

     so audibly, so blatantly.

Each half-hour or so he has a smoke,

     so leaves the room,

permitting us to take

     a deeper breath,

drawing somewhat cleaner air

     into our lungs.

Ah, who has the courage to say

     please go away -

though it would be better to use

     some choice language?

But all we do is sit.

     Just hope, ho hum!

(Sep 2022)

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Sometimes someone just has to speak up and risk being impolite...
Otherwise it is a very long night----
and we will start to feel we want to put a gun to our head.
j.

[Andrew John]

Thank you, Jacob. Actually, this is based on a particular person who is mostly among our company in the pub we tend to use. I just don't understand how some people can be like that! :(