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Poetry: Caffeine

He goes to A.A. meetings
and hunches over white cups
of black coffee

Still slides into bars
like they're comfortable slippers
and waves a waitress over
"Black, please"

Men and women dance, sing karaoke off-key,
throw up in bathrooms, exchange numbers
He wraps his hands around coffee cups
feeling the warmth

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