Sit quietly apart.
A server will approach
wearing a red apron
nothing else.
Order champagne.
The apostles dig it.
Bubbles provide tingle
that pass for euphoria,
which in actuality
comes later
according to the imagistic.
Bus your own table,
be a nice fellow
then depart.

Colin James has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published. Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski’s Porch Press and a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press. Formally from the UK, he now lives in Massachusetts.