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Coffee

October 29, 2014
By GreyGirl ELITE, Pohang,Kyungbuk, Other
GreyGirl ELITE, Pohang,Kyungbuk, Other
170 articles 122 photos 391 comments

I.
I try to recreate
the memories of black sleep
in a coffee cup.
II.
rings under my eyes,
rings on my textbook pages,
both caused by coffee.
III.
I stay up all night.
Drinking coffee to learn
and learning to drink coffee.
VI.
I drink coffee now
Hoping one-day to be offered
A cup of hemlock.


The author's comments:

I was up late reading about Socrates, drinking coffee, and so this poem was born


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GreyGirl ELITE said...
on Dec. 9 2014 at 8:03 am
GreyGirl ELITE, Pohang,Kyungbuk, Other
170 articles 122 photos 391 comments
Glad you liked it!

on Nov. 23 2014 at 4:15 pm
TargonTheDragon GOLD, Ofallon, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
First dentistry was painless.<br /> Then bicycles were chainless,<br /> Carriages were horseless,<br /> And many laws enforceless.<br /> <br /> Next cookery was fireless,<br /> Telegraphy was wireless,<br /> Cigars were nicotineless,<br /> And coffee caffeineless.<br /> <br /> Soon oranges were seedless,<br /> The putting green was weedless,<br /> The college boy was hatless,<br /> The proper diet fatless.<br /> <br /> New motor roads are dustless,<br /> The latest steel is rustless,<br /> Our tennis courts are sodless,<br /> Our new religion &mdash; godless.

"...drinking coffee to learn and learing to drink coffee."   -such an amazing statement there.