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Cheryl Townsend

DRINKING KARAMEL LATTE


at Eat n' Park

while waiting for

Deb I am annoyed

by an aggressive

waitress who

keeps asking if

I want to go

ahead and order

and I keep saying

no I am early

can I just get

more coffee &

every time she

comes back

she has no pot

so I finally say

OK I'm ready

to order and I

order a cup of

coffee which

she brings me

and sets next

to my empty

one and then

asks if I'd

like any dessert



@ Eat n' Park


The bald manager

is flirting w/the

chubby waitress

& mine has not

come back yet

w/my change

I'm worried she

might think I

gave her a $7.21

tip for a $2.79

cup of karamel

latte so I just

sit & wait but

she still has not

come back



I know I've dreamed you

  a sin and a lie

                           - M. Jagger/K. Richards

                                         Wild Horses


I've kept to many years

hidden in poetry

away from you

Alias heroines and

knights in tainted armor

Nothing I could need

even less of it I want

It's too late now

to change the metaphor

force it into rhyme

& call it country music

I can only suck up

from here on out

as long as you'll let me

without knowing why


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Thunder Sandwich #26 - Summer/Fall 2005