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"Can I buy you
a cup of coffee?"
I looked at his cigar face
and saw a boy
behind the man
and what the heck
coffee's cheap.
No investment here.
Just hanging a left
off the philosophical path
and television isn't free either.
So we took to the
back of the chairs
and bent our heads
toward our ears.
There are medleys
to be learned
from life's myths
woven through
another's eyes
'cuz what isn't true
turns up years later
anyway
and what the heck
it's a long night
until3 a.m.
and trees dance shadows
against the frosted windows.