lunch break

walk inside this Chinese restaurant,
one of these family-owned places,
you know: smiley face bags with "THANK YOU" all over, fortune cookies
real Chinese at the grill.
the whole enchilada.
Middle-aged Chinese lady
at the counter.
I look down at a business card for real-estate,
I look up,
It's her.
Can I have the Mongolian Beef?
Yea, Shore.
fried rice or white?
fried.
I pay, sit down.
An 8 hour old is trying to make up time with the old man.
"We'll come back here again because this place is good, they have good fish" he says.
the kid's feet dangle like noodles
eating noodles.
"I like baseball" he says
"Oh yea, why do you like baseball?"
"your food is ready"
yea, thanks.
back in my acura,
drove 5 minutes back to work
up the flight stairs
into the break room
I open the fortune cookie:
"You are going to have a new love affair."