Reading through the Blur

Reading through the Blur

 

 

alone is a menu

with the appetizers missing

the entrees overcooked

and the drinks coming too fluently

 

until the verbiage is so high

the credit card is rejected

and love is confiscated

for dessert, more tears

 

and the backseat of the taxi 

is so vast with no companion

to share the fare

just empty air,

 

 the ghost ride

into a concrete cold sunset

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

6/11/23

Reviews

[Ayesha]

A beautiful capture of the absent appetizers. This reminds me of the song "Tom's Diner". As always, brilliant.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Ayesha,
j.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Maybe he better home cook from now on
I agree that restaurant stinks
Alone in a cab mmm well plenty
Time to sweat the small stuff I’ve been alone in a cab at night hated it years ago
Ive always been intrigued by all the yellow cabs I see in n y in movies are they all yellow ?
Great write

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I think now they are...Checkered Cabs a thing of the past.

[Andra Dare]

I love the imagery, it conjures such a profound, visceral response -- recognition and empathy.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your kind words, Andra,
j.

[Chris Shaw]

I don’t like the place or the menu, the lack of it stinks. I see him sitting alone, all the empty glasses lined up. Loneliness is a killer. So unkind on the spirit. I want to talk to him .

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Please do, he will gladly share his table with you.
j.

[Ayesha]

Hello Chris and Jacob. I would like to add something here. I believe that loneliness is not all that evil. At times, it is humbling. It means that we miss something greater than ourselves. It means we acknowledge that there are things greater than ourselves. And this acknowledgment in itself is an achievement for man in the process of become human.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I tend to agree with you, Ayesha...
maybe the three of us should meet at this place and make it less lonely...have some poet gab.

[Ayesha]

haha sure. Flouting what Emily Dickinson has to say, "The Loneliness one dare not sound"

[Chris Shaw]

Well I just have to add my pennyworth and say a big hi to the both of you :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Hey Chris and Ayesha,
Have you ordered yet?
I'll have a hot chocolate.

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Jacob.. have you seen the Movie made in 1950 entitled “Harvey” with James Stuart. It reminds me of your Poem. By the way.. Harvey was his imaginary friend. softly, Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Absolutely, think I have seen every Jimmy Stewart movie...love his acting...I appreciate your comparison...gee, I gave it away...I have an imaginary friend...not a rabbit though.
j.

[Patricia Wedel]

Ha… Roger calls me Rabbit affectionately. I feed delicious Organic Carrots from COOP to our Wild Rabbits, and Robins prefer to eat Bird seed on the Grass… what a Menagerie… It haunts my lonely days. I love 💗 the Song 🎶 “Imagine”… quietly, Pat

[Lorry]

I do think chefs keep their most experimental fare for the lone diner Jacob, having had to recently ask the waiter if it was animal, vegetable or mineral I was "being expirimented with."
I've even been tempted to ask the lone diner if they'd like to join us instead, but having previously ate in waggamamas, where they just sit you next to strangers anyway has always put me off when my head starts thinking of possible newspaper headlines on my demise.
And who knows, maybe after five menutes putting up with me, they'd be asking for their table for one back anyway. 😊
Although the way some people treat lone diners makes me wonder if they think lone diners should eat take out every night.
A handy hint is to just stare back at them, unblinking. They'll never look your way again. 😊

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Did you every see Steve Martin's movie "The Lonely Guy"?
When he walks into the restaurant and he tells them he is just one...what they do is pretty funny.
I never mind dining alone or going to movies alone...if people want to gawk...that is their problem.
thanks, Lorry,
j.

[Lorry]

I did. Must look for it again though, as haven't watched in forever.

[W. Barrett Munn]

The optimist says, look at all this room I have. Cabbie, drive through McDonald’s. I’m still a bit hungry.

Winston

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and a large fry with that.
j.

[Pete]

loneliness is all that it's cracked up to be and then some. no one to clink glasses with either. that's one menu i don't need to see - i'll just have the special ... :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I have often been alone, but never lonely...
different restaurants I guess,
thank you, Pete,
j.