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Dinner--alone.

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Each night, Alex Johnson dines alone.
It's not really a problem, he thinks,
Though the dining table really is too big
For just one person.
Maybe he'll get a smaller one,
So it'll look less empty.
Tonight he's eating lasagna
Out of a microwaveable dish.
He's quite the eligible bachelor,
His friends sometimes remind him--
He's an accomplished cook,
He likes to clean, and he even
Enjoys doing the laundry.
And who really ENJOYS doing laundry?
But despite all this
Each night, Alex Johnson dines alone.
Why is that, he sometimes wonders,
When his mother thinks he's such
A great catch. If he's really so
Wonderful, why hasn't anyone
Snapped him up? But of course,
It's not really a problem, even if
The dining room table is a bit big.
Even if it does look horribly empty.
It's a little sad, his mother says,
But who listens to their mother
Anymore, at least at his age. The point is that
Each night, Alex Johnson dines alone.
Sometimes he imagines there's someone sitting
At the other end of the table--
Her face lit up in an animated discussion
About drapes or furniture, or whatever it is
Women talk about these days.
Somehow he can never really imagine
A proper picture. It always ends up
Being someone he dislikes and,
Like his mother always says,
Why marry someone you don't get along with?
Maybe that has something to do with why
Each night, Alex Johnson dines alone.
Which is perfectly acceptable, he sometimes
Has to remind himself; besides, it's not like he
Needs to have somebody else around.
It'd mess up his routine, his
Perfect system; he'd hate to compromise
On something as basic as the color of drapes,
Or the pattern on the bedsheets.
No, he thinks, maybe it's better this way.
And he really believes that.
Even if, deep down, there's this little
Nagging voice that says that maybe he's
Not as good as he thinks he is.
Maybe he's too set in his ways,
Too close-minded, that maybe
His "perfect system" is the reason why
Each night, Alex Johnson dines alone.
This one was fun too.

Alternate title: Fuckboi
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isanyonereadingthis's avatar
I like this. It's good. Hooray.