Robert M. Simmons  

from Added Entries (Poems 1991- )    

           Cell Phone at a Fancy Restaurant

While dining at our favorite restaurant

the soft strains of Mozart

are interrupted

by the insistent chirp of a cell phone.

A gourmet at the next table

pulls this tiny technological wonder

from his pocket,

answers the call

and conducts his conversation

loudly enough

that we can hear every word.

We look at each other in momentary despair

then watch our eggplant Parmesans

metamorphose

into a feast of captured flesh

and ourselves into a pair of cannibals

ravenously devouring our prey

from the far-off world

of wireless communications.

                   © 2003 by Robert M. Simmons

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Cell Phone at a Fancy Restaurant