The Snow White Diner

I am eating hash browns
In the Snow White Diner
Outside cars are honking
Flashing lights on the bridge
They're pulling a car up
From the bottom of the frozen lake

A woman drove her Saturn
Into the black water
Killed herself and her two kids
Strapped in the backseat
She'd lost her job
And didn't want her kids to be poor

The diner is noisy
Black coffee and sugar
Baskets of dinner rolls
Outside the crowd is growing
Waiting by the drawbridge
Hoping to see the dead one's face

In the booth next to me
There are two old women
Eating liver and onions
And they're laughing too loud
And banging the table top
But then I see that they're deaf

I don't know why they're laughing
Maybe the world's much nicer
If you can't hear the cars
They make me feel better
Like I'm drunk on a plane
And have forgotten I'm afraid to fly