Restaurant

11 May 2012. Cody, Wyoming

I'd like to know who gave

this restaurant five stars

with its abused lettuce

and colossal olives from a can.

Who ends up in towns like this

surrounded by mountains and

pre-chewed news inflicted

with a plague of locusts

worse than the bible?

Is this packet of saltines

supposed to disguise the fact

that this lukewarm soup

was cut with skim milk?

Now that I no longer

have room for dessert,

I'd like to apologize

for the violence

this rotting community

has wrought, stealing your

independence and robbing

your self-worth