The Unknown Couple

The unknown couple Lunch hour a woman was coming out of a bookshop dressed in a white blouse and a long black skirt. She met a man outside he wore brown striped suit too big for him and together not holding hands they walked down a street that was dusty and had waste papers on a road that had not seen rain for a long time perhaps never. I wanted to know who they were and followed them they hastened their steps rounded a corner and went into a cheap looking Chinese restaurant. They ate rice and curry Drank coca cola She held his hand for a moment Was it love? Or did she reassure him about an impending breakup? I wanted to know their story how they ended up here in third rate restaurant spending the hour of freedom from work there and walking in a shoddy street enveloped by sadness and lost the opportunity or was I in an Edward hopper painting I said to myself: I could write a novel about this but as a poet, I`m too lazy to write one