Christopher Flaherty Poet Free verse

Consummate Loser Winner Fool

Here is 1 for

Ring , Ding

The phone goes

Hello bud want to go out for a drink

Meet you at your house at 6

Hello bud how's it going
lot's to catch up on

Now let's fast forward a little
more and bit later

A single step since entering the
bar 

The 1 friend who phoned to invite
his friend out for a drink

Says mines a pint you get the 
drinks in

I've got some spare coins i want
to throw into the slot machine
won't be long grab us both a chair
so long

Half and hour or more later sat
alone his friend returns and 
eventually re-joins him

Downs his pint and says i just
won 400

But friend No 2 refrained from
saying well done my mate get the drinks in tonight's on you

Because he knows rather than 
that what he is bound about to 
say is this

Couldn't lend me 20 could you
please mate

I won and was 400 up but
threw it all back in plud another
100 my night out spending
money chasing the 1000 jackpot

Actually mate can you make that
50 i'll pay you back when i get
paid

I know that jacpot is poised
and about to pay out any second
now

Thanks your a good mate then
proceeds to the bar only
to get change

Forgets about buying his mate
a drink or the fact he has left
him sat all on his lonesome

Even though he is the 1 who
actually invited him out in
the 1st place and it is his
50 he is about to gamble
away and loose

And when and after he losses that
as well like a spoilt child says 
to his friend 

That's totally ruined and spoiled
my night out completely

Get us 1 final drink for the road
mate im off home

I don't know why i even bothered
to come out in the 1st place

Or more to the point

Why or how you have any friend's
left

Given the fact this happens not
some of time but the majority
of the time

And worse than that you know
you have hit the lotter friend's
jacpot

When the lesser of 2 evils

Is choosing between this 1

Or the other 1 who has 2 drinks
turns into a spiteful drunk and
blames the world for everything

Who would try and wants to 
cause and could start a fight
in a graveyard

Or punch a vicar if he wasn't
willing to hand over his holy
communion wine stash

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David Kavanagh April 27, 2021 at 3:38 PM I’m wondering where this one came from Christopher, I mean there’s certainly a pair of them, one a user yet both end up losers, not really a friendship, am I missing the point, I’m a bit flummoxed on this one Christopher Flaherty April 27, 2021 at 4:08 PM Yes you are right David. Both losers who don't or can't realise how lucky they are. Still to have friend's who are willing to put up with them. Until they eventually give up on them and loose them as well the only thing they never realised or appreciated . Who in the end stop calling as No 1 wants to go out with because what is fun to them isn't funny or worth bothering anymore