Saturday afternoons at Schaaf Bros.,
Clicking snooker balls, game on the tube
A Place for men
Farmers in feed store hats talk weather
and women, gossipy, just like their wives.
Pre-cholesterol-panic roast-beef sandwiches
piled in splendor next to pitchers of cold
Bud with tomato juice--Scottsbluff cocktails
Argue, shout, laugh out loud
tell tall tales, dirty jokes, and bet
on football games
but don't sing.
The Bros. don't like your songs.
©1996 William Davis