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Friday, May 06, 2005

Poem: A Night at Waffle House

With menus of yellowing pictures
And smoke rising up from the kitchen
There's grease all around every fixture
The patrons too weary for bitchin'

The coffee's a solvent for cleaning
The silverware stained and encrusted
Employees in uniform leaning
'Gainst the counters with which they're entrusted

It's late and they're open for business
As ever they are when you're needing
Some soda that's lost all its "fizzness"
Or grub that is fit for your feeding
Comments:
Spending long periods of time in Waffle House can be hazardous. Sometimes exposure to the food causes bizarre and nauseating hallucinations. If overcome, sometimes relief can be obtained by playing "Good Food Fast" (found on the juke box in every Waffle House because it is performed by the wife of one of the owners.) "Good Food Fast" causes intense irritation and fidget in the Waffle House staff present breaking up the ambient gestalt and restoring a sense of objective reality.
 
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