They knew where they stood.
When they moved,
It was because they must.
Anger moved them,
And the desire to be elsewhere,
Or something in them
Responding to music.
They knew also
What waiting can be.
Side by side, they mastered it,
Like an old married couple.
- Shows his ability to use more direct language, but even in this light-hearted poem, there is still an underlying depression or lonliness seen throughout his works
