BROKEN

Murmured conversation and cutlery scraping
into the restaurant he came
as out of place as anyone has ever been
he was older, enormous, bedraggled
his shoulders were wide, straining against a greasy brown coat
his hair, matted, above a weathered face
stopping, he seemed surprised to have arrived in the restaurant
he turned to face our table and we caught eyes
words, of a sort, fell from his mouth and landed on the floor
he was escorted out and the silence was filled once again
with murmurs and scraping