FRUSTRATED

'My life is falling apart,' he said as he sat down near me on one of the benches faces the fountains in the centre of town.
I read the paper I'd bought just before the coffee i was drinking. I didn't want to get into a conversation with him considering the material.
'I could lose everything,' he said, 'because I'm frightened to take a risk...with anything...it's my mindset, it isn't right, is what it is...'
...the sound of buses, traffic, pigeons, people talking, walking by, maybe heard what he was saying...
...two men on the next bench along drinking, one from a bottle the other from a can...
'...I'm so frustrated,' he said.