cakes are done & people are finished
he was there and then
he wasn’t
playing to a crowd
he thought he knew
but didn’t
he said cakes are done
& people are finished
it was something
he had learned
from his mother
and when he told this
to a waitress
some sixty years ago
she stepped away
stopped & returned
to tell him he was right
november two thousand twenty-four
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