Monday, April 09, 2007

A Coffee Poem

DAD HAS A BAD CUP OF COFFEE AT A ROADSIDE DINER….
By
Gregory K.

“This tastes like mud!” my father said.
“There should have been a warning!”
I thought there was. The menu said,
“Our coffee’s ground each morning.”


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8 comments:

Rita said...

Fantastic.

Anonymous said...

Tee hee!

Disco Mermaids said...

I think I'm drinking that same coffee right now!

- Jay

Greg Pincus said...

Jay, that was MY cup! And yes, it was mud. You can tell cuz the mug is now dirty....

Elaine Magliaro said...

Gregory,

I guess if the coffee had been piping hot, you could have called it java lava.

Remember the woman who spilled the take-out hot coffee on herself and claimed she had "grounds" to sue?

Anonymous said...

My father is in a coffin, tasting mud…
Under the ground…
There were no warnings too…

Anonymous said...

Love this poem. And I think I've been to that diner!

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