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"Write about your favorite place," the professor said
Okay, are you ready for Poem #2???
You ARE???
Wierdos.
:-)
Aptos Coffee Roasting
Two fast cups, I recite
The Saturday morning ritual
One poppy seed, extra toasted
with sundried tomato
one pesto with butter
I hand the cash in my hand
To the man with the ponytail
Bring one coffee to my man
His nose in his book
Saul Bellow.
My coffee goes back to the counter
Pour the cream, tear open
Four packets of sugar
He looks up and grimaces
Sugar ruins coffee, he says
Again.
One poppy seed! One pesto!
Yells the ponytail man
I take the silver envelopes and sit in my chair
Open my literature book, he puts down
Saul Bellow
Prepares his bagel sips his coffee
And I sit and watch the people
Outside the window
The surfers sip their coffee
in the fog
The little red haired boy runs in
With his red haired mother
They walk past the tables
Where the outgrown hippies sit
I’m in a band, says one
We do Black Sabbath covers,
mostly.
We just need a drummer
And a lead singer.
I smile to myself and look up
My man is smiling too.
I bite my bagel, sip my coffee
The pesto and cheese go well with the sugar
I think.
Posted by Pischina at May 1, 2005 6:15 PM
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