day 281

 “’the Son Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!”’”  Luke 7:34

 

we think we will

find you at the restaurant

where folks wait months

to get a reservation, dressed

in a tux and hobnobbing with

the elite and privileged, but

you are around back,

sitting outside the kitchen door,

sipping a cold one and

passing around platters

of fried fish, hush puppies,

and coleslaw with the

dishwashers, servers, and

folks who will clean up when

the front doors are shut.

 

© 2020 Thom M. Shuman