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How to Speak Service Station

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The car in front wears a careful war mask:

red slash eyes / white slice nose /
big yellow incisor /

Two cruise over scissor snip lines.

PASSENGER 1: Coffee
DRIVER: A42, M6, M5, A40, A342
PASSENGER 2: Skinny capp and double chips

The basin of the food hall seating
area grinds northerners, southerners,
east by west, burr by lilt by whine.

WAITRESS: Chips and peas or chips and beans?
Chips and beans or chips and peas?
CUSTOMER: Peas.
WAITRESS: Peas?
CUSTOMER: Peas.
WAITRESS: Beans.
CUSTOMER: Peas.
WAITRESS: Peas?
We are experiencing technical difficulties.
Please be patient, your order will be rectified shortly.

Outlying moonlight flicks
off car tops gliding right.

Not sure about stanzas 1 and 6. Might want to stay in the service station more.

For #HammeredPoetry's prompt 7: Reality TV

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angelStained's avatar
I love how you start it out with 'careful war mask' & then fragments happen before us to show us why. The language is precise and cutting, thus apt, and the style too; it's meant to hold your focus on the small parts (?)