The Lovely Couple

The Lovely Couple In a café I hadn’t been to before I ate an omelet with french fries, it was flat, boring the fries were re- heated. Near me sat an old couple reading the paper together, when he got and up walked outside for a smoke, she read the obituary page, but just before he came back in she folded the paper back to the page he was on before leaving. He was interpreting to her what he had been reading, something about the new president in the USA, she knew of his views, she had heard them before, she was listening to his voice, as they were old and near the end of a blessed lane they had walked together. Close they sat she held his arm and now they looked young. It is odd to think if they knew they would live forever they may have postponed their happiness indefinitely.