Please wait to be seated.
You will be shown to good seats
but you will have to surrender.
Stand there and wait.
You may be given a public place,
in the centre of the faces and voices,
or a private booth:
a watching space, a listening hush.
You will be ushered by good-looking attendants
but you will have to surrender.
Observe the rituals.
Listen carefully, ask
clearly and quietly,
behave with respect.
And let a hungrier person go before you
and let a weaker person hold onto you.
Then wait in silence.
You will be shown.