Putting on the style for Bro salvatore

narrative verse

 

 

 

Putting on the Style

 

The Maitre D in evening dress

 was greeting the important guests

 He did not know and had to guess.

Where we should rank amongst the rest.

 

He had not seen us there before.

So suitably obsequious

He judged us by the clothes we wore.

 his Bonhomie was spurious.

 

WE chose to act as though we were

 expecting him to bow and scrape

As though we were superior

 To us a most delightful jape.

 

Two pensioners out on a spree

Our fortieth anniversary

Though we were dressed impeccably.

We were not what we seemed to be.

 

He thought we were celebrities

 and treated us as though we were.

Which we accepted gracefully

We were the best dressed couple there.

 

Clad in old fashioned finery.

 well cut though madly out of date.

 It demonstrated quality

Our status hard to estimate.

 

The Maitre D made up his mind .

 Reacted deferentially

Which served to show how he defined

an unknown couple instantly.

 

We had a most delightful meal

accompanied by the best champagne.

 So like a dream it seemed unreal.

 That we resolved to come again.

 

Perhaps next anniversary

when had saved sufficient brass

WE had impressed the Maitre D

As patrons of the highest class.

 

I paid of course by credit card

 as though we dined our frequently

 Although in fact we had saved hard

for this our annual spending spree.

 

The doorman was instructed to

inform us when our limousine

arrived but still nobody knew.

Just who were or might have been.

 

12-Oct-08

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[Ed Hart]

What fun! I hope it's true,
two (older) kids at play,
(pretending toward the color blue)
on their anniver-sary.