Coffee

I do not drink coffee.
I know it sounds weird
I have tried and tried but
I just do not drink coffee

My dad drank coffee
He is a funny guy
Always laughing over coffee
He smoked cigarettes

My mother rarely drank coffee
Maybe when she drove late
Maybe when she worked late
But other than that
She never really drank coffee

Coffee is like liquid intelligence
It is like the difference between
Someone who writes and a writer
Coffee means you are thinking

Coffee means jazz music
night poetry lounges,
Art shows, listening parties and
Fiction reading.

Coffee is the “cool”
Coffee is black drama kids
And tight fits.
And black berets

Coffee is the mail carrier bag,
Thrift store vintage scarves and
The blues.
Coffee is the New York times,
The wall street journal, The New
Yorker and Time.

I have always liked coffee,
But I could never drink it.