Small Talk

Jimbo starts with questions
that make the guests uncomfortable;
Do you have a credo?
Do you have a faith?
Doesn't death get you skittish?
Where's the sense in fidelity
if there's just endless zilch
in store?
And I'm thinking
Christ
way to bring down the barbecue

squeezing bangers with tongs
watching fat
spunk over grey coals.