10 March, 2023

Cheers

 A rickety table. Blue with white legs.

A red checkered tablecloth

creating small triangles on four sides.

A stray by the floor.

His eyes half sleepy, half expectant.

A bowl of peanuts, mostly broken.

To go with cheap local beer,

served in glasses used for 

orange juice by the day. 

Distant sound of waves, mixed with moist salty wind.

Sky a kaleidoscope of pink, fuchsia and grey

bidding adieu to the setting sun.


They sit in silence

nonchalance bred through years of familiarity.

Eyes vacant, lips closed

The evening has a single word

of conversation,

'CHEERS' 



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