Double Vision

At Waffle House, they fired her on the spot: “You talk too much!” She’d told her customers That “made” gets “mad” and “poet” goes to “pot” Without the letter e. The “amateurs,” She’d said, “inherit everything: the sand, The stars, the world that only God possesses.” While washing dishes with a bleeding hand, She’d told them, “through ‘possession’s’ double ‘esses’ There’s a line that cleaves; things come apart; ‘Refrain’ means both ‘hold back’ and ‘go again’; Things join in wholes of which they are a part.” She “touched” the people. Was it such a sin? Her broken pencil left a double line On my tab, both legible as one design.