Don stepped outside
It felt good to be alone
He wished he was drunk,
Thought about something he said,
And how stupid it had sounded
He knew he should forget about it
And decided to piss, but he couldn't
(A plane passed silently overhead, the streetlights, and the buds on the trees and the night, were still)

It finally came, he took a deep breath
It made him feel strong, and determined,
To go back inside

The light
Their backs
The conversation
The couples, romancing, so natural
His friends stare,
With eyes, like the heads of nails
The others
Glances
With amusement,
With evasion,
With contempt
So distant,
With malice,
For being a sty
In their engagement,
Like swimming underwater in the darkness,
Like walking through an empty house,
Speaking to an imaginary audience,
Being watched from outside, by no-one
(A song without a key)
He could not dance to anything

Don left,
And drove,
And howled,
And laughed,
At himself
He felt he knew what that was

Don woke up,
And looked at the night before
He knew what he had to do
He was responsible
In the mirror,
He saw his friend