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Coffee/Bars
I. Croissants are awkward
to eat. To eat alone
enhances embarrassment.
Feigned interest in a book.
Comfort comes when mastered.
Stale bread & words
can start religions.
II. A purpose for art in coffee shops—
places to focus
when staring off into space.
Journaling long hand brings attention
from people using laptops.
What happened to Eva Hesse?
Her eyes and my met glance.
III. Nashville is not New York.
New York may as well be Tokyo.
Nashville is not Birmingham.
Planning a weekend,
an inconvenient necessity.
I am in this state.
I am the Capitol.
IV. Reading Harper’s between
mouthfuls of New Castle and chips.
An algonquin table for one.
Contributing to the delinquency
of the near middle aged.
Confessionals are only given
to interested barkeeps.
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Nashville is not New York. That is pretty obvious. It is much more. I lived in Music City for 4 good years. I made a wealth of friends and it is still a city I would happily return to visit. Most southern cities get a reputation for not having what New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles has to offer in things to do. When I first moved to Nashville and after a hard relationship split I wrote Coffee/Bars to capture the mood I was in at the time. The building featured is a downtown landmark familiar to most Nashvillians and one that, I hope, presents a hopeful future for this beloved former city of mine. The poem may have a sad theme but there is a humorous undertone that, I believe, is in every sad song belted out in Nashville's music scene...which doesn't always involve country.