Would you be sad to know Pete’s Pasta
has gone upscale? It’s Café Canale now
specializing in Napoletana pizza.
No more bargain buffets.

We won’t be enjoying
unlimited rigatoni again.

A lot has changed in the last six years.
Even your absence hasn’t stayed the same.

From a chest pain so fierce
I felt too faint to stand, it’s mostly
an all-over ache in the evenings.
Better in the mornings.

Like the food at Café Canale,
grief comes now in a single serving.
No seconds and thirds scooped
with a large spoon.

But I still taste it every day.