(Viv is a character in Ken Kesey's novel, 'Sometimes a Great Notion'.) <br /> <br />'Where are you going? ' <br />'Who knows? ... I'm just going.' <br />—Ken Kesey, 'Sometimes a Great Notion' <br /> <br />She sips her coffee <br />without the taste of freedom. <br />What do you do <br /> <br />when you leave your husband <br />and home, everything but a box of photographs? <br />What do you do <br /> <br />after you have taken that first step? <br />The rain, <br />always the rain— <br /> <br />When the coffee is gone, <br />when the door closes behind you, <br />when you step into the rain—what do you do? <br /> <br />She taps the photographs into a neat pile, <br />leaves them on the table, gets on the bus.<br /><br />Hanque O . . .<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/viv-in-the-coffee-shop/
