1 <br />Tom sits alone in the bar <br />staring at <br />his drink before him <br />The burly stranger comes in <br />stares at Tom and seizes Tom's glass <br />and finishes the drink in one gulp <br />Tom cries <br />and the stranger says: <br />'Damn! Don't cry! <br />I was joking <br />I hate to see a man cry <br />Wipe your tears off <br />and I'll buy you a drink' <br /> <br /> <br />2 <br />'No, it's not that, stranger, ' <br />says Tim, still crying <br />'I've had a damned bad day <br />since the start <br />I went to work <br />and my boss fired me <br />And I went home <br />and my wife was with another man <br />I went to the park <br />and I got bitten by a stray dog <br />I went back to the car park <br />and just then somebody drove off with my car <br />And I came here and <br />at the exact moment I was going to have the drink <br />in one gulp <br />and put an end to my life - <br />you came in and finished my drink, <br />every dropp of the poison <br />I had emptied into it'<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-can-t-stand-bad-days/
