waffle house 18

shylowe sortman

Shall I compare thee to that midnight fray?

Thou art smoother than their melting butter:

the place does attract shadows from the day,

and rats hath claimed their forsaken gutter,

sometimes pops too greatly their hot oil,

and often the A from the sign hath dimmed

it’s blinking golden rays. True, might they boil

their 5oz Sirloin, potatoes unskinned

but thy beauty lives longer than mornings

prematurely woken at Waffle House.

Heed not the teenage waitress’s warnings

wear thy waffle on thy body a blouse,

for when man must forever onward roam,

calls he Waffle House not- but Waffle Home.

Shylowe Sortman is a 21-year-old, full-time student at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida. She is an English major with a concentration in creative writing. Shylowe currently works in the Flagler College English department and despite being constantly surrounded by literature at school and work, she enjoys reading and writing in her free time. Shylowe’s work tends to lean on the uncomfortable, the beautiful, and sometimes the downright weird. She just recently bought an old 2007 Dodge Caravan, appropriately named Cara-De-La-Van, and is renovating it out for a cross-country road trip.

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