Jazz hangs in the air as, the neon reflects off cold marble counters, strawberry pie à la mode, black coffee steaming, Invites me. and Old *** sits in A Booth, eating a meal paid for with loose change, peddled on a corner from strangers. My black book of poems sits next to me, begging me to fill those blank pages. A widower sits at the counter, over a lonely meal, ease dropping a poetic dalliance of late night lovers, remembering. A waitress and cook consumed in a caffeine fueled debate. The highway, carrying hungry travelers, in the cosmos of headlights. To this Mecca of neon, chrome and porcelain, where $.75 will get your cuppa coffee and a life time of stores to consume.