Style

In italics, placed at the end

Of the Indian Palace Royal Café

(Take-out available) menu’s end,

Is the kicker,

(“All Goat Entrees Served ‘Bone In’!”).

Did the menu’s writer 

Wish to speak heartily about goat

Or to demand respect

For its proper preparation?

Italics are at once modest and proud

Concerning their difference.

The swirl and curve of letters

Announce details which

For some restaurant patrons

(including

the husband from New Jersey

whose raw expression  at

the word “goat”

turns eating in

or out

into  self-sacrifice)

Will come as a surprise,

An inkblot test, for those

Unprepared for goat, for bone,

For the unexpected entrees on

The menu handed to most unsuspecting

Of those at the table of life’s great feast.