my coffee knows me best
today I've gotten more and more
familiar with Bishop.
Elizabeth Bishop
and I find myself sipping hot
caffeine for the second time today
she was addicted to alcohol
just like I am to caffeine
her glass was filled with whiskey
mine is three quarters water,
one quarter cold milk
two teaspoon of coffee,
and one of sugar.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Today I got to know a perfectionist
a woman poet
whose main feeling was of
alienation no sense of belonging.
Fascinating just
like
me.