Breaking Bread
At a restaurant
On Montrose
we are seated at
the ‘community table’
There are three
other couples
Already seated
we order our food
and the couples
talk only to
their spouse
Its awkward so
we mostly talk about
the food
Isn’t this good?
Here, try this!
Next time,
I’m ordering that!
I feel self conscious
because theres
The potential for
This thing called
community
but no one wants it
And in the corner of
My eye
Jane Austen
sits with almost
Impossibly perfect
posture
Tsk tsk, she says
Shaking her head
Quite vigorously
Melanie Browne is a poet and fiction writer living in Texas under the big bright barbeque stars.
