24 October 2008 | Vol. 8, No. 3
Notes from Petrie's Diner
still early I overhear
soft exchanges between murderers
over cold breakfast, fingers
stained with the answers
to both questions
stool pigeon
omelet plain
—
I am buying rifles
from a black & white
catalogue in 1952, outside
a man high up
scrapes years from a
billboard, a candidate's face
and half a Mercedes
—
I marry the waitress
with a coffee ring, she
brings fuel for my broken lamp
pours her language into mine
until I say when, until she
forgets me with my own money
—
Fox news as silent film
hinged vision behind the
cook, the red countries are
bad, this time the camouflage
is beige, we've finally found a
use for airplanes as if the gods
were only imagining us
—
morning left without paying
—
he drips egg on his tie, says
fuck, pulls the napkin from
the knife when the front door
jingles, the piano movers enter
disguised as accidents, dragging
the broken cable
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About the author:
Jadon Rempel is a Canadian writer whose work has recently been published in Existere, Dance2Death, dailyhaiku.org, Notebook Magazine, and Monday's Poem by Leaf Press. "Notes from Petrie's Diner" is from a manuscript entitled A Door Walked Through. He is proud to have this first excerpt featured in 42opus. Jadon lives in Edmonton, Alberta with his wife, Michelle, and baby daughter, Aria.
For further reading:
Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 8, No. 3, where "Notes from Petrie's Diner" ran on October 24, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
