tap water and bread

that's my favorite
the waitress says, pointing
at the crab cake
selection
on the menu, but we're
out of that.
plum empty on crab cakes. sorry.
what about the soup,
I ask, the clam chowder,
to die for she says,
but sadly we ladled out
the last drop
an hour ago.
okay, I say, what about
this,
this rib eye steak.
oh my.
I almost pass out when I eat
that.
wish you had been
here yesterday
we sold out
then. it was a two
for one steak night.
okay.
bread. do you have bread.
I just love the bread here
she says.
I could make a meal
out of bread and butter.
i'll bring you out a basket.
i'll try not eat
any on the way over.
she laughs.
water too? sparkling
or tap.
tap.
if you have it.