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Empire Diner<br />
WILLIAM DORESKI<br />
In the gloss of stainless steel<br />
we fondle menus and consider<br />
what color wine will flatter<br />
your grape-colored eyes. Neither<br />
red nor white but something tawny,<br />
richer than plonk, riper than brandy,<br />
something to meld the classic<br />
architecture of the diner<br />
with your post-industrial gaze.<br />
The diner’s too chic to last.<br />
In ten years it’ll disappear,<br />
scorching another raw spot<br />
into Manhattan, which suffers<br />
its open wounds in silence.<br />
But now the menus flutter<br />
like fledglings; and the wine list,<br />
although it doesn’t name you,<br />
consigns itself to the memory<br />
of your Art Deco expression,<br />
flattering to self and other.<br />
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