Cappuccino.


The morning my local café was shut, its owner had
fled not paid his taxes, why should he, he didn't earn
much but did an invaluable service, I hope they won't
catch up with him.

It was a place where old men sat looking into their
wasted years, a place for pathetic, shivering drunks
could come at eight in the morning for the first drink
sad man unloved by the world.

I came here too cause their haunted faces I can see
the presence of god and the holiness of suffering.
The new owner has made it clear he doesn't want
us here; yesterdays ghosts we seek a dark basement.