They Arrived (Day 151)

 

Casually, they arrived, 

perfectly suppressed 

diamonds, and gray 

velvet manners
both attracting
     and repelling

their fellow bon vivants. 

They laughed

      eh-heh eh-heh

and swallowed mouthfuls 

     of champagne 

and as their host told 

another joke and stole
a worried look at
their empty glasses,
he caught the beginnings
     of a yawn 

wriggling at the sides
of her smiling lips.

(c) 2017, by Hannah Six