CarrollBlog 7.31

People Who Eat in Coffee Shops

by Edward Field

People who eat in coffee shops

are not worried about nutrition.

They order the toasted cheese sandwiches blithely,

followed by chocolate egg creams and plaster of paris

wedges of lemon meringue pie.

They don't have parental, dental, or medical figures hovering

full of warnings, or whip out dental floss immediately.

They can live in furnished rooms and whenever they want

go out and eat glazed donuts along with innumerable coffees,

dousing their ...