Correspondence

I was wearing a tombstone t-shirt
& a pair of graveyard shades
when I pulled in to the Dream
Diner outside of Barstow

The waitress showed some mileage
but poured a good cup of coffee

There were prairie oysters on the
menu & I asked her about them
“They’ll put lead in your pencil,”
she said,

“if you got anyone you
want to write to”