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Tip Your Waiter
by Angela Yuriko Smith

You could have been nice.
Rudeness is its own reward.
You reap what you sow.

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Believe me, we get it. We all have bad days
nerves frayed by daily adulting, the hassle
of the hustle and bustle, the rush to push
to get ahead, out of bed, out of the red
to the weekend, tomorrow, tonight we
all borrow discounted minutes from
Peter to pay Paul. You had a
bad
day
but
you
chose to complain, take it out
on the help, on the waiter, a guy
working two jobs, three if you count
the kids. He keeps dibs on when the
bread is a day old, and the meat goes
almost spoiled for the discount. But you
are already spoiled, and your meat is free.

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We are what we eat.
The best things in life are free.
So, you have been reaped.

Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.

More from Angela Yuriko Smith:

Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.

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