April 15th, 2023
In America…
The Resistance
We sit in waiting rooms and quietly note the other waiters—phones out, thumbs flick, heads forward, shoulders rounded, chests sunken, eyes chained, minds chained, here but gone—five, six, seven of the waiters — all the waiters in all the waiting rooms across all the country. Except for one. Except the noter. Who bears witness, resists the urge and says no, no thank you to all of that.