The Quite Man

You tell me to be happy,

for I can live longer, apparently.

But I just know a grumpy man who lived to his nineties.

Empty gum and he goes out to buy some teeth.

"Make sure you use them," said the dentist.

And he looked at him...it's not quite funny.

Watching the world mouth move,

but he's lost his hearing.

It was the best thing that ever happened to him, really.

Long before he turned seventy.

Stop listing to his nagging wife and the rest of his kids.

A blank face in the dentist’s office.

He knows the sad man is cracking a joke,

but he is not laughing.

Glazed face as always.

He flips him off as he takes on his leave.

He was there for teeth,

Not to be entertained by an ironic dentist.

He walks out, giving him his bent back.

And now the dentist has the same facial expression.

Oh, that grumpy man had no care.

He walks back home with one foot in his grave.

He simply doesn't own the world anything.

He can fall into a deep sleep for eternity.

He's had about of enough it.

But what's life without him?

Someday he'll pass in peace.

And I will miss him terribly.

Truly I tell you, that's the real tragedy.