My husband and I had a pizza restaurant fifteen years ago. A wonderful place where scenes unfolded daily. The prompt at Read Write Poem was perfect for me to give a second look at some work that has been percolating in a notebook all these years.
two lovers
eat pizza
weekly
always order
pinot noir
by the bottle
mozzarella strings loop
around forks
feed each other
come in on saturdays
leave on wednesdays
table one
their nest
it’s thursday
lover one
arrives
sits at table two
orders a beer
one personal pizza
pays the bill
yells out
“gotta start a new life”
door slams
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
dog and I walk
through
stale cigarettes haze
loud music of
the neighborhood tavern
woman storms out
tall
black dress
her second skin
shadows
fella with
cowboy boots and stetson
her stilettos strut
hand smacks
the van as a drum
bellows
I
loved
you
you
killed
my
soul
dog and I
move on
dog
sniffs the ground
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