The Booth Song

Insides roiling in waves of cream cheese

sweater around my shoulders and barely assisting in my shunning of cold

your voice is animated and inspired

but I cannot see the smile of your eyes

as I have so many times before

hidden inside the next booth over

I hear you acquiesce to a previous request of mine

and bitterly I laugh at its prior completion

(September 14th, 2007)