When I was reading the first few lines, I thought the bored busboy and the tray were analogies for an indifferent funeral director and the large metal trays that vacated human bodies are placed on for storage in the funeral parlor prior to prep for burial or cremation.....
Yikes! I guess the poem calmed down for you (relatively) after that.
When I was reading the first few lines, I thought the bored busboy and the tray were analogies for an indifferent funeral director and the large metal trays that vacated human bodies are placed on for storage in the funeral parlor prior to prep for burial or cremation.....