Tennis-Bot and the Minimum Wage

Tennis-bot lost the championship to Pete Sampras

&stares out the window —

 

I was haXX0red, he sighs.

 

TB moonlights at a diner off I-86

Flipping pancakes

                         servo motors picking up am frequencies,

Older waitress a bit sweet on him.

I wasn't made for this, he tells her.

 

It's an economic decision, their love,

a month later she's showing up to work with waffles on her face.

Tennis-bot drinks because

 

his father drank

because his human son died.