If

 

                                  --

 

 

 

                         Hey, look over there

 

                     In the                corner

 

                  It's the                   corner

 

              Guy, that                    chap who hangs

 

              Onto things,                onto situations

 

              To which he                 belongs, even if

 

               No one wants              to acknowledge it

 

                 Sitting,                           waiting

 

                 If only                        this were

 

                  If only                   that weren't

 

                   If this,                if that,

 

                    If some other       thing were true

 

                     Or false,           it depends

 

                     He'd have           a reason

 

                      He'd have       justification

 

                      He             wouldn't be the

 

                                 Third Person

 

                               Third Wheel

 

                              Third Party

 

                              Third Place

 

                              The backup            who's packed up

 

                              When the              non-reserves show

 

                              Just once,            he wants his

 

                            Just one time,          a win instead

 

                              Of a show

 

                               A sole               chance is all

 

                               A day in             the spotlight

 

                               Hopefully            in this game

 

                                Going               slowly and patiently

 

                                Arms                outstretched

 

                                                    Head first from Base

 

                               Might                give him

 

                             A better               chance of

 

                              Getting               tagged

 

                             Six steps              from either end

 

                            Two vastly              different points

 

                             That look              so much the same

 

                              Should                he run straight

 

Fourteen steps to the goal

 

                                                      Or perhaps the way

 

       No one's looking, for

 

                                                  Only twelve

 

         Or perhaps a mere flip

 

                                               Can get him where

 

                      He needs to be

 

                                         Where there's an

 

                                  End to the

 

                                     If

 

                                 And a chance

 

                                   To play