Poem: Restaurant Voices

Photo: Sand sculpture
at the Pacific National
Exhibition '08.
Written yesterday:
"Restaurant voices...
refuse to whisper
words of wisdom...
but rattle on...
each one with
an unabashed certainty
about what is being said...
It's been ever thus...
this strange certainty
about so much
you can't really
be certain about...
Still...helping to keep
human beings meeting...
so they can each
dish out their opinions...
not really benefiting
from them...
but from meeting face to face
and sharing...
and helping to keep
the blues away...
sometimes even with
the most approximate
stories and ideas...
a lot like me...
scribbling the time away...
in my afternoon restaurant..."
.....................Quester.