The Partial Explanation by Charles Simic

Seems like a long time
Since the waiter took my order.
Grimy little luncheonette,
The snow falling outside.

Seems like it has grown darker
Since I last heard the kitchen door
Behind my back
Since I last noticed
Anyone pass on the street.

A glass of ice-water
Keeps me company
At this table I chose myself
Upon entering.

And a longing,
Incredible longing
To eavesdrop
On the conversation
Of cooks.       

I really don't know if my interpretation of this is what the poet really wanted it to be like, because all I can understand here is that the poet has been waiting for a long time for his food to come. Is there any deeper meaning? Because I can't really think of any haha.

So this restaurant the poet is in seems a bit run down and the service seems bad.
'Grimy little luncheonette'
'Grimy' makes me think of dirt and darkness- Probably what the restaurant was like, dark.
'A glass of ice- water/ Keeps me company'
Who serves ice cold water during winter (the writer says snow is falling outside)?
Apparently the cooks are talking ('the conversation/ Of cooks') and the poet has an 'Incredible longing/ To eavesdrop' on it. Probably he wants to know what they are doing taking so long to get his food done.
There is quite a lot of repetition in the poem: 'Seems', 'Since', 'longing'. The first line on stanza starts with a conjunction ('And'). I guess they all just kind of make it seem like the poet has been waiting for so long.

This poem is really different from some of the other poems that I've read before. It's more narrative, factual and straightforward and not many poetic/ literary techniques are used.

And I really can't think of anything more to say about the poem right now. Maybe I'll come up with something later and I'll update the post.