The Snow White Diner

I am eating hash browns in the snow white diner

Outside cars are honking, flashing lights on the bridge

They're pulling a car out from the bottom of the frozen lake



A woman drove her Saturn into the black water

Killed herself and her two kids, strapped in the backseat

She'd lost her job and didn't want her kids to be poor



The diner is noisy, black coffee and sugar, baskets of dinner rolls

Outside the crowd is growing, waiting by the draw bridge

Hoping to see the dead ones face



In the booth next to me

There are two old women eating liver and onions

And they're laughing to loud and banging the table top

But then I see that they're deaf



I don't know why they're laughing

Maybe the worlds much nicer when you can't hear the cars

They make me feel better like I'm drunk on a plane

And have forgotten I'm afraid to fly