Month: December 2024
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Age is an imperfect vessel
Have you ever been trapped in a drive-through lane at MacDonalds? Would you ever even admit it if you had? I mean some things, like sweat stains on the collar of your favourite tee shirt, or the rip in the crotch-seam at the back of your sweatpants which a friend points out as you stand…
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Coffee at MacDonalds
I met himAt MacDonalds –In a quiet sectionTo be sure,But we both were OldAnd had no wishFor noise,Or kidsRunning around our seats. A portly man,With trembling handsAnd a pockmarked face,He made the first attemptTo speak to me,But I was here,On a sudden needFor coffeeAnd did not engage. But as he sat,Now staring straightAhead,I realizedI had…