Bread, bream, bass, muscles, fish soup

Salad, pasta, and glasses of dry white wine!

A handsome 6-foot 5 waiter, glowing

with a smile appeared, to seduce

seven women’s gastronomical yearnings

while sheepishly confessing that

it was only his second day at work

but would try his utmost best to be at our service.

After lunch, we planned to climb the ancient fortification

surrounding the mountain to catch a bird’s eye view

of the lay of the land and keep our imagined enemies at bay,

centuries of helmeted foot soldiers marched

on the valley below looking up the steep incline

praying they would survive the military encounter

…until platefuls of bread, bream, bass, muscles, fish soup

salad, pasta, and glasses of dry white wine

arrived on our table, breaking the spell.

The 6-foot 5 fellow, feasted by seven famished women’s eyes

became part of the menu.

What a delectable delicacy spread it was

at a restaurant in Montenegro.