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Frank Pietru - Sipping Bitter Coffee

2014-06-14 2 Dailymotion

Sipping bitter coffee it’s the lunchtime rush, <br />The faded plastic table cloth bears morning scars. <br />A chess board for the bored, sale weary shoppers, <br />Salt is pawn to mustards king, game abandoned <br />To the rind rimmed plate. <br /> <br />A girl enters, loud in her pregnancy, with two <br />In a buggy, snot proud and hungry they squall. <br />Hair tight back, face worn by the dole. <br />She rams my table and glares, I mumble sorry <br />Wondering why. <br /> <br />Mr cheap suit shouts instructions into his phone as <br />A couple of chippies brag of the night. <br />The gnarly old busker parks his bass drum, <br />Orders apple pie, from the fly blow chiller, <br />Too cold for wasps. <br /> <br />The smell of fresh shit catches the nose, <br />She holds the child up like a trophy to show. <br />Then turning she puts it back in the pram asking <br />‘Have you done a poopy in your nap nap? ’ <br />I drain the last dropp grimace and leave.<br /><br />Frank Pietru<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sipping-bitter-coffee/

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