Three Young Women

Three young women

Seated together at a café.

The first was beautiful

Beyond comprehension.

The second was plain

And pensive.

The third was very fat

And talked incessantly.

A middle aged man

Watched them

From time to time

Amused by what he saw.

At first, he was drawn

By the beauty.

But her beauty became tiresome

And he took notice of the pensive one.

He wondered what it was

She was thinking.

He thought and thought

But couldn’t decipher it.
Giving up, he took notice 

Of the fat one, and listened to her story.
It was full of life, very amusing.
He listened, and when she finished

He laughed.

The woman looked at him,

And he felt ashamed

And looked down at his work

Which he pretended to be engaged in.

The women looked at each other

And smiled.

The man did not see the smiles,

But he sensed them

And set aside his work

To write a poem.