Hot Coffee

by Marc Mangel

the goodness of hot coffee

on a cold night

tattered by rain

is forever established in

the anarchy of

time

perhaps too the wondrousfiliyt

of coffee

hot and black seething

and

steaming as it will

is strengthened

by the durility of

alone

alone and coffee are

something better than horse

and carriage or

bean soup and sandwich

a way to fight

the insanity

in which our heads

must dwell

 

January 1973