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Each week on eCoronado, we feature a different piece of prose or poetry produced by one of our writers. Please feel free to comment or ask questions in the comment section below.
Cinco de Mayo at Miguel’s
by
Mary Beth Dodson
I watch one sombrero-ed waiter
Draw an exaggerated mustache on another.
I hope it isn’t magic marker;
It looks like it.
The Mariachi band arrives with trumpet blast.
All at once it is Old Mexico.
The tunes familiar, the words not.
The band is strung through the restaurant,
For the place is packed.
The trumpet on the steps,
The fiddle crowds the cash register,
Two guitars between my table
And the hallway.
The mustachio-ed waiter
Ducks around them.
The waitress with a rose behind her ear
Strains to hear her customers.
It is confusion. It is gaiety.
It is Cinco de Mayo.
I love Mariachi ..
