Lounge Bar Observations - Janinka Diverio

Palm trees in the clouds
Oversized curtain tassels
Reproduction prints
After dinner mints
Family conversing
Eat as much as you can
Dark inside when sunny
Packet trifle, frozen flan

Carpenters on the radio
Pockets of chat at the bar
Melamine chipped place mats
Wondering where you are

Varnished wood
Sachets of sauce
Frosted windows
Between each course

Old man
Sat all alone
This hotel bar
His second home

Tourist season
Coming soon
A few new faces
Would lift the gloom

Lights dimmed
Heaters turned low
Machines fall quiet
It’s time to go

Janinka Diverio

written at Grange Lodge Hotel whilst waiting for Lester Queripel,

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