Something Else
Scattered change beside scribbled bills,
empty bottles upside down in coolers
of melted ice. Coffee cups drained to the dregs
staring each other out across silent
tables. Are these the images you'll carry
home? Companionably battered chairs
left higgledy-piggledy everywhere
until the only waiter still working,
leg-weary and heavy-eyed this far past
midnight and wanting to close, to roll down
the shutters, go home to his girl and sleep,
straightens them, one by one, back into place.
Are these the memories you'll take away
when you wave a cheerful goodnight and leave,
stroll back to your hotel across the old
cathedral square where clever lighting turns
water fountains into sprays of moonlit
gold and watchful beggars with scrawny dogs
squat in doorways, or is there something else?
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