the two gentlemen...

       
 
 
we were in a bar in Verona -        
there was a man sitting at a table,        
when another man came in and sat next to him,        
at the same table...        
       
           
         ***
 
neither of them spoke, or acknowledged        
the other's existence -        
both sat in silence, eating,        
as though alone...        
 
 
         ***
 
I thought it might make      
an interesting story,        
but then, perhaps, after all, there was        
simply nothing to say...