Timothy Liu

The waitress takes away my plate before I’m done. 

The cocoa machine sputtering out. 

 Out of Order sign on a single-holer door. 

 I could go on and on. 

 I could go off. 

 Hold your horses, Mr. William Butler Yeats. 

 Maude Gonne takes the Triple Crown. 

What were the odds? 

 CCTV cam swiveling around. 

A father raiding his daughter’s college fund. 

Things once seen cannot be unseen. 

Things once said. 

Her blood sugar off the charts. 

Can you see his astral body hovering there above her bed? 

 Thanks but no thanks. 

 Gotta run.