You walk so slowly
Sans haste
And I walk so quickly
Before too long
I am at your back
Surely you can hear me
Chomping at your heels
Unable to get around you
Is it really so hard
To step to one side
And let me get passed
And away
What’s captured your attention so
To belligerently keep your eyes to the sky
And not on the floor
Where you would plainly see
How slowly you are walking
And how close my feet are behind yours
My frustrated foot-falls
Versus your absent shuffle
A match indeed
For a wounded snail
On valium
Thus, with growing irritation
I noisily hurry you along
With my tutting
And my heavy, stunted steps
Wondering all the while
How you came to be so slow
And I so fast
And how on earth
You got into my house
In the first place?
