The Cafeteria - B
As I sat at the table in the cafeteria I was eager to feast on the food staring at me. I was oblivious to anyone around. A hysterical laughter caught my attention and pulled me out of my cocooned world. I looked towards the direction from where the laughter came. There were three men seated
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Categories:
cafeteria, family, loss,
Form: Prose Poetry
Intermission Fool - Cafeteria Monitor
Can I go to the bathroom? This place is full of jackasses. This place is full of jackasses jerking each other off. This place is full of ignorant, parochial, zit-sucking jackasses undeserving of their place at the table. This place is full of miserable, zombie-like sacks of skin. Can I go to the bathroom? This
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Categories:
cafeteria, 10th grade, allegory, food,
Form: Burlesque
The Cafeteria Lady
Do you see the way she looks at me
As she asks what I'd like to eat
I'm not sure of what to say to her
But was that just a wink?
I'm not the only one standing here
That m'lady wines and dines
Yet another school year
In the Cafeteria line
You know she had me with the hair net
Matching the color
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Categories:
cafeteria, food, school, sexy, youth,
Form: Rhyme
I Am a Cafeteria Christian
I am a Cafeteria Christian,
I am a Cafeteria Christian through and through,
Are you?
I am a Cafeteria Christian because while I believe it is God breathed,
All of Christian Scripture doesn’t speak to me,
Not all of it illuminates me to see my Savior as he really is,
I quote Christian Scripture more than most,
And yet it is love
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Categories:
cafeteria, bible, christian,
Form: Blank verse
Cafeteria
Patiently waiting in a line
eyeballed an wary
harsh barking of subterranean cultures
standing weary and inured
to the rotten
fug
the rotten
oxygen
inside the high walls and wire, the weighted stone of
the convicted
existing like convicts
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Categories:
cafeteria, absence, age, angel, anti
Form: Free verse
Company Cafeteria
Company Cafeteria
People right-handed
carry their cups
in the right hand.
Left-handed people
carry their cups
in the hand that befits
left-handed people.
Whichever the hand
all carry their cups
elbows right-angled.
Whichever the hand,
all cups are at sea, adrift
on an ocean of saucers.
Donal Mahoney
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Categories:
cafeteria, people
Form: Free verse
Country Cafeteria
Country Cafeteria
in Shelby County,
Illinois, 1989
The two weeks
I spent in that small town
on assignment, I saw no blacks
except for two older women
regal in every way,
hair coifed in silver gray,
working in the Country Cafeteria.
They walked like pastors’ wives
as they bused their 20 tables.
White badges on their uniforms
announced in red their names,
their
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Categories:
cafeteria, black-african amerday,
Form: Free verse