Musing #8: Coffee

A poem for my favorite addiction

Do you drink coffee on Sundays?

Coffee and writing: Thank you both so much.

Coffee is a 

wonderful

and legal

drug.


I depend on it

to tolerate you,

and the horror

of a morning sun.


I hated the smell as a kid,

but grew fond of its magic 

as an adult.

It made my father

approve of me,

when I fixed him

his cup.


Then in college

I thought I’d…