TOM'S DINER
by Suzanne Vega
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I am __________ in the morning at the diner on the __________.
I am waiting at the counter for the __________ to pour the __________.
And he fills it __________ halfway and before I even argue,
he is looking out the __________ at somebody coming __________.

It is always nice to __________ you says the man behind the __________
to the woman who has come __________. She is shaking her umbrella.
And I look the other __________ as they are kissing their hellos.
And I'm pretending not to see them, and instead I pour the __________.

I open __________ the paper, there's a story of an __________
who had died while he was __________. It was no one I had heard of.
And I'm turning to __________ horoscope, and looking for the funnies,
when I’m feeling someone watching me and so I raise my __________

There's a __________ on the outside looking inside. Does she see me?
No, she does not really see __________ cause she sees her own reflection.
And I'm __________ not to notice that she’s hitching up her skirt.
And while she's straightening her stockings, her __________ has gotten wet.

Oh this __________ it will continue through the morning as I'm listening
to the bells of the cathedral, I am __________ of your voice
and of the midnight picnic once upon a time before the __________ began.
I finish up my coffee, and it's time to catch the __________.