Thursday, November 6, 2025

Stone Cold Coffee in Billings Library

 The last sip of coffee I just took

At a table on the balcony in Billings Library

Overlooking the huge fireplace

Was stone cold. 


It wasn't even a real sip,

Only a brown crescent moon

Which I espied through the mouthpiece

Of the plastic lid of my paper cup.


The coffee chilled me to the bone

When it dribbled on my tongue stone cold,

And I sure wish that old fireplace

Was blasting warm air across my face.

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