{"sf1_id":352205,"sf2_id":"GnDrdape","title":"The Fool","author":"Xandie","words":178,"posted_at":"2012-03-10T21:16:00.000Z","tags":["Angst","Depressing","Poem","Sad"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/352205-the-fool","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/GnDrdape","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/a0/9e/a09ee4d0-2c95-4c0c-8c28-fcaac61874a0","description":"This one is personal, written about my dad...","content":"There sits a lonely gentleman\n\nUpon a shaky stool\n\nThere are many whom flock around him\n\nTo play him for a fool\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHe looks out with his lonesom eyes\n\nAcross the braying static\n\nWinking cheap, electric lighting\n\nHis reaction's automatic\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHe drains another glass\n\nIgnoring the buzz within his mind\n\nPeering about at all the the other lonely people just like him\n\nSearching desperately for that which they cannot find\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHe cannot break his habit\n\nHe does not shed a tear\n\nHe can listen on for hours\n\nBut a word, he does not hear\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHe does not understand\n\nWhy it is he feels so alone\n\nWhen there is such a crowd around him\n\nThe reason remains unknown\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI'm afraid I understand it all too well\n\nIn fact, the reason is quite clear\n\nHe does it to himself, you see\n\nShrinking from his fear\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd so there he will stay for all eternity\n\nUpon that desolate, fatal stool\n\nA ruined, broken gentleman\n\nForever, playing himself the fool\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCopy-written to Xander Bradeshaw\n\n  \n  \n\n"}