Spoiled Dinner

FILET mignon for my birthday sits
DULLY on my plate, uneaten as an
IRATE customer nearby rages about service and
NOSEY spectators pull out their phones to record.

(Forgot to post when I wrote this a number of days ago.)

L’escargot

Inspired by an episode of The Andy Griffith Show.

PEARL of wisdom may I offer you:
BASTE, season, sauté or stew,
SNAILs will still be slimy goo.
QUERY the staff before you choose.

Aquariama

Our
BLOATed goldfish gained great weight, with
FROTH above, below, from his heavy wake, seemed
MANGA in his comic style, but in his piteous
VOICE meanwhile, reviled, ‘Don’t mock me, give me better flakes!’

Customer abused

Here in the restaurant I stare at my plate, DULLY,
Say, ‘On no account did I order beef FILET, Rosie –
Yes, your service has made me IRATE, Wally –
You say what? Hmm, is that a bruisy on your NOSEY?’