Grease stained corners folded tight
Coffee ring seals the midnight bite
Pencil lead bleeds through cheap pulp fiber
Short order syntax nothing higher
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Glass house shaking on its tracks
Tomato vines drink every word
Roots absorb what flies absurd
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Regulars know the special code
Hash browns scattered on the road
Order ticket pinned beneath the grill
Flaps once more before the kill
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Glass house shaking on its tracks
Tomato vines drink every word
Roots absorb what flies absurd
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Condensation writes its own script
Drips down panes where light equip
Soil scent mixes with the fryer gas
Another shift another pass
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Glass house shaking on its tracks
Tomato vines drink every word
Roots absorb what flies absurd
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Cracked pane sings when wind blows hard
Letter shivers deals the cards
Ink migrates to where roots drink
Paper skin begins to shrink
No tip left on table four
Just steam and sweat and nothing more
But seeds remember what was said
Before the dawn paints river red
Morning crew flips open doors
Letter feeds the tomato floors
Words become the fruit they bear
Sweet and sharp and thoroughly rare
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Glass house shaking on its tracks
Tomato vines drink every word
Roots absorb what flies absurd
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Wet ink rising through the cracks
Rain stops tapping glass goes still
Harvest comes to pay the bill