Old Ed dined on Saltines and water
and the waitresses took turns being kind
when he yelled, “Over here, honey,”
because he’d lost his wife and daughter
and, along the way, his mind.
He put a flower behind one ear
and sat down to his cracker stew,
gruff and glowering and without money,
and the girls winked, as they came near,
because winking was the
extra bit that they could do.
and the waitresses took turns being kind
when he yelled, “Over here, honey,”
because he’d lost his wife and daughter
and, along the way, his mind.
He put a flower behind one ear
and sat down to his cracker stew,
gruff and glowering and without money,
and the girls winked, as they came near,
because winking was the
extra bit that they could do.
~~~~~~~~~~
Doug Logan
"Uniontown, 1980" also appears in Yaakov Murchada.
Thanks Doug - really like that one. I like thing about winking (which is appropriate for sympathetic waitresses but not so much for presidents).
I think my ambition in life is to be Old Ed - not the younger Ed losing wife and daughter, but Old Ed. The diet doesn't have anything scary in it.
Take care
- Arch
Posted by: ellwort | January 22, 2009 at 07:21 PM