hasn't been long
has it?

or
has it?

- - -

why is it that
everyone who walks in here
looks so
*******
beautiful?

- - -

why is it that
everyone who walks in here
looks so
*******
concerned?

- - -

I like the idea
of organized crime

reminds me of
well
organized crime.

- - -

I've learned enough
but I can always learn more.

I've learned enough
but I can always learn

m
oooo
re.

- - -

sometimes
I notice
someone
peaking at me
from
the
front-counter.

curious?

why, yes, I am.

- - -

I don't
know
if it's arrogance
or love

that drives me
to hope
someone else
will be just as excited about
my poetry
as

I am.

and it probably
doesn't
even
matter

really.

- - -

sweet half-smile
from a girl
or
woman
woah man
with really friendly curls.

I'd chat
but

well

- - -

my dream world
consists
of being able to yell
at everyone

how much I love them
and how

beautiful

I think they are.

- - -

there's no line
in the sand

so
shut the **** up
about separates.

- - -

Sisyphus
you are a nice metaphor
but

you're still a metaphor
and if I read you enough

I will forget that
and you will win
a battle you had no idea

you even started.

- - -

am I still writing
about a cafe?

no

but I am still writing
in a cafe.

- - -

the sounds of a crowded cafe
ca-caw! like a crow, everybody's crowing something
each a beautiful story dressed in winter hop-scotch
or a poorer story dressed in a business suit.

who knows
perhaps it's like a rich chocolate covered in a wrapper
and that business suit is to be peeled off soon
enjoy the sweet treat underneath

but I can always tell when someone is selling themselves
because they look like a city map
drawn to design

I guess try-hards are alright when they polish like diamonds
except the beauty of a diamond is not faked
the beauty of the diamond hides itself underground, to show that the deeper you go
the greater it gets

so why manicure?
why manicure, Mr. Business Cowardly,
are you afraid of yourself?

- - -

I probably moved on in observation a few moments later when I realized the pretty girls across the way whom I used to go to high-school with
never did I once speak with them
I felt no need
because I knew they manicured themselves to avoid the fact that the diamonds underneath were either hidden away to be kept for themselves
or just
never there?

the wailing baby is the bravest
the wailing baby is the greatest
the wailing baby understands the grand stand by remaining unstood

fine, fine wailing baby
you are God and you already know it
but get ready to forget because Mr. Cowardly Business
and Mrs. Manicured Face will eat you too
and leave you soulless until you're soulful

the daily drain of the soul into an unholy grail.

let the world sip from the cup like a poisonous water
WAIT!
I'm still thirsty, don't drink it all yourself!

- - -

that serious face of beauty
rock-hard, dead-eyed beauty
I wear it too and I'm probably ashamed but I'm not sure yet.

- - -

just a little jittery from the jut-cliff of caffeine
ah, ah, aahhhh, it makes me thirsty to live.

ah, ah, ahhh, what lovely visions upon seeing
appearance vs. reality
appearance is reality
appearance is
disappearance
is
pardon me I need to ****.

- - -

at least somebody cares
but stop pretending *** I know you're too scared
to admit it.

- - -

christmas decorations already
I guess that makes sense if you're trying to
increase
your net
profit

prophet

- - -

pretty face you wear
******* for hiding your pretty face

- - -

do I qualify as some cultural absurdity
considering I'm sitting here
sipping coffee
writing poems
baby blue toque
comfy-patterned sweater?

what's better?

- - -

these dash-breaks don't annotate much
except implicit unity

yes, you know me.

- - -

not really sure
what to think
about that one

or that one

or that one

or
this
1

- - -

one of the men in a business suit
describes this place as
noisy

but quiet.

maybe he's not so
Mr. Cowardly Business

maybe I judged him over the
speed
limit.