Sunday, June 8, 2014

Dear Diner

Your short order cook looks a little hot under the collar
Most of your waitresses are balding but they divert attention with their long nails and pretty faces
Your menus are laminated and propped up behind the napkin holder
Your offerings have extravagant names - Split Decision, Grand Slam, Freedom Toast, Mickey's Sputnick
I always get the coffee and the eggs
The coffee is as bitter as my mother
The eggs are great - all they need is a generous slathering of something or the other
You are generous with your potatoes and always send some over even when I haven't asked
I thank you for that
From Tulsa to Santa Fe to St. Louis - you are the familiar among the foreign


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