
Popeye
Popeye By Bill Stork, DVM Belle was the waitress you’d expect in a roadside diner, three miles west of Nowheresville, Iowa. Porcelain platters balanced up her right forearm, she stooped to pour a warm-up from a steamin’ pot of Farmer’s Brothers. Pastel rouge spackled on her cheeks, unable to hide the years, liner on her lashes no disguise for the longing in her eyes. The retired construction worker, fire chief, and banker who always came to town for breakfast on the last day