last man standing

he was staying indoors more and more
all his mates seemed
to have disappeared
into a world of quiet
domesticity
in which he lived too
but sometimes he
just wanted
to howl, to tear a strip, to lose it big
time
which is difficult to do on your own
or maybe a
bit sad


nothing wrong with staying
in
A lot easier before
With his ps2, dvd, broadband,
digital tv
he spent ?100 a month at least on all this
mularkey
money he might once have spent on one
night
of madness


he couldn't
remembered when it had all stopped
was it a gradual thing?,

people moved out of London
until he was the last man
standing


he couldn't be doing with going
out with younger people
he didn't have anything to
say
and they didn't know what he was talking about
when
he wanted to laugh about the clangers or captain
pugwash