poem 5

by dog e relaford

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people say they are lonely people say they are sad but if you walk up to them in the street and talk to them mostly they just get mad if you try to talk to people when you don’t even know their name and they don’t know yours either they get mad all the same people say they are lonely people say they are blue but if you try to cheer them up they look funny at you sometimes i wonder if anybody really cares if you sing a little song on the subway they don’t even stop and stare next poem