This solitary cup
needed its mates.
A sorcerer had banished him
even from plates.
He wanted a hooker
so he could hang about
on a hook, well spaced out
wiv his mates again
to re-ascertain
his life wiv crockery
and not that mockery
of being a solitary cup...
George BernardBloodyShaw
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cup-of-kindness/