Give happiness a chance

 Nobody came 

Barry fell dead in the street. 

A crowd of inquisitive people gathered around him. 

The traffic stopped. 

 The police picked him up 

And deposited him at the morgue. 

 Three days in succession they waited for a relative, 

a friend, an acquaintance to come.  

Nobody came. 

Then Barry was placed in a special refrigerator. 

What a symbol. 

A refrigerator for people who are forgotten.  

They waited another two weeks. 

Still nobody came. 

Then one afternoon  

He was put in a hearse 

And taken to the cemetery- 

Buried like a lost object. 

Barry  

Was a human being, 

A man 

alone in the city, 

buried long ago 

by other people.