I'm eating lunch at Chili's.
A bacon cheeseburger and a bowl
of baked potato
soup. With salsa.
I eat the salsa on French fries.
Sometimes, I eat out at
lunch.
Blaster Al took a bus from Baltimore
to Austin, Texas. He says he forgot
cell
phones. Passive conversation.
What's that man doing-writing poems?
Sometimes
when I finish a story I like
I'll get a tray of portugaises at Gene's Oyster
Bar
in Millville. Without the dry white wine. At Gene's,
it's sweet tea or
bottled water. Soda pop. The oysters
are fat and salty, especially in the cooler
months.
Like November. When I first quit drinking,
I was a water-abuser.
I drank Artesia-brand mineral water.
Au revoir, Perrier.
They only have still table water at Gene's.