INTERRUPTED CONVERSATION

Interruptions …. Sometimes
in the middle of
one of those accidental,
wonderful, unplanned conversations….
an interruption enters the room.
“Oh no! Another person!”
Sometimes three’s a crowd …
but this third person doesn’t know it.
Hey, twenty minutes earlier,
we didn’t know it either.
Often great conversations just happen –
like running into an old friend
in a restaurant or museum.
Where do the not gotten to parts
of these unfinished conversations go?
Where would they have taken us?
What old forgotten memory
would surprisingly surface?
Okay, there are lots of museums
and movies we’ll never get to.
Waiters and waitresses are
used to picking up plates with half
finished meals – but sometimes
people take the rest of the plate
and the rest of the conversation
home with them in Styrofoam
boxes or doggie bags. “Woof, woof….”
Yet ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2010