Family smiles down
long tables at
loud restaurants
there’s an extra calmness
there sometimes
and even family
blank stares and
family glares still
jaws with an
inch or so between them and
all the muscles
hanging comfortably
loose.
Family smiles
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2 responses to “Family smiles”
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the brady bunch fantasy lives. also seems like an ‘olive garden’ commercial, and speaking of which, they owe me a coupon for a free dinner. really.
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
—George Burns
“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
—Calvin Trillin -
“also seems like an ‘olive garden’ commercial”
that’s funny. I will confess that when I wrote this — and it was based on something real and observed, honest — but I thought, ‘I kinda like this but it seems to me a litttle like an olive garden commerical.’ but then I thought ‘what, have they copyrighted the idea of related people eating at a long table? what?’ so now it’s like: ‘oh. they have? ok.’
in other words: my arms are too short to box with olive garden.
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