Lunch Meet
By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 15, 2021
Lunch Meet
Ham on wry
Cuts like revenge
Best served cold
A gooey Reuben
Heavy on the kraut
At the Break Room
Oh the irony
I am not wise
But you are
So let us converse
Tête à tête
Learn from each other
Better than books
Reading body language
Break bread
Smash pumpkins
Trash talk
Solve problems
Of the universe
Meety nuggets
Pearls before swine
Wine and dine
Beer and Burgers
Back in the day
Feeding body and soul
How we converse
Morphs into verse
No con about it
Straight no chaser
So many topics
Stillness with Michael
The squirrel that
Comes each day
For nuts on the deck
Eating from his hand
St. Francis as local monk
From Tao to Red Sox
The lake poets
With Bill
Wadsworth v. Wordsworth
Yeoman names
Woodcutters by trade
Matter of dialects
Then and now
Yankee Puritanism
Uptight Updike
T.S. and Lowell
Carried his laundry
To and fro
Speaking of Michelangelo
Slings and arrows
Outrageous fortunes
Come and gone
Looping round the pond
Circuitous imagination
Persnickety perambulations
Pithy succinct quotes
Charging the net
Furious volleys
Point counterpoint
Then Pimm's Cup
Cheers and good luck
Robert my Consigliere
Thoughts deconstructed
The French system
Raised in Haiti
Gallic education
Explication du texte
Boundless universe
Nothing untouchable
Slaughtering sacred cows
Passionate paso doble
Blood on the sand
Extreme interrogation
Reaching into beyond
Amicable smackdown
Jane my oldest friend
From the 1960s
When she taught English
Later artist and musician
Celebrating our birthdays
At Korean Garden
Kindred scorpios
As we have for
Most of a century
Ever more precious days
How many more
Irish sports pages
No time to waste
Now mostly painting
Too gonzo for punk rock
Like when she and Jeff
Opened for the Clash
In Harvard Square
We laughed about that
So young and brash
Plunging into the abyss
Night when
Moosh Magique
Danced in the flames
New Year’s at Benno’s
Clear light of dawn
Such crisp cold air
I could see
For miles and miles and miles