Four seated
In a pizza place
Sharing a pizza
Cheesy and delicious
New York style
Talk between bites
Reaching for the Parmesan
The table slides
Hits one of them
Right in the gut
Pizza drops
Back on the paper plate
Grease splattering
Eyes wide
Heads turn
Bodies shift in their seats
To see the sound
Strange noise
From the little table
Table of four
Laughing it off
All things resume
They continue to eat
That greasy, cheesy pizza
Talk of life
Current events
Bites of pizza
Two slices left
Split and taken
Being eaten
When...
Slide
The table
So killer
Slides to one
Hitting their gut
Making them grunt
Pizza drops
Heads turn
Bodies shift
Movement from all about
The pizza place
Eyes fall upon them
Laughter
Then the table is fixed
Repositioned
Then the pizza
Cheesy and greasy
Is devoured
Talk goes on
All resumes
After a time
The four leave
Cleaning up their trash
And leaving behind
That killer table.
- Jay M
November 28th, 2019
My mom, sister, my friend Cadence and I went to Bronx pizza the other night for dinner. The table slid to our guts twice, and we made a joke about "the killer table". So, I said I'd write a poem about it. Here it is. :)
