Greasy Spoon
A kind of café difficult to find in these
aseptic times. Stiff plastic gingham-patterned
tablecloths with condiments like hand-grenades,
net curtaining whose corrugations seem
to have remained unaltered since
the fall of Dien Bien Phu. Linoleum.
Genuine primordial linoleum. Oxidised resin
grafted onto felt, the gums and oils
augmented, through incessant spillage,
into a colour scheme untraceable
in current vinyl catalogues.
Cutlery is neither laid nor displayed,
rather issued like weaponry
to prospective diners much inclined
to take their portions by surprise,
dispatching them post-haste
through the digestive tract
without troubling the taste buds.
Daily, the Health Inspector breakfasts here, winks
and goes off to indulge a lifelong passion
for bacterial research in pristine premises
where lard is rarer than rocking-horse shit.
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