Now, this, especially the first stanza, is great stand-up verse, Max.
Not a coffee-drinker myself, I do not go there, but I fully understand…
Doug
> On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Max what we need is a sleep-in at Starbucks !!!!
> apart from the fact I am not supposed to use them re eco and other reasons P
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Max Richards
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 4:38 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 'At Starbucks, Dozing '
>
> At Starbucks, Dozing
>
> 'We can't have sleeping in here’.
> That’s what my wife heard;
> I was asleep.
>
> The Starbucks young woman
> passing our table said it.
> My wife asked me:
>
> ‘Did you hear that? How
> offensive. Look round - ’
> I opened my eyes, taking in
>
> all the other tables: no-one
> slept at them, laptops
> and cellphones engrossed
>
> all the patrons, beside
> their empty cups and plates.
> I went and got two drinks.
>
> Oh all my life in libraries
> and such, snoring old men
> have saddened me.
>
> Now I’m one of them.
> No doubt I seem a tad bad
> as ad for the coffee here,
>
> the reverse of stimulating.
> My wife is cross on my behalf.
> She emails Starbucks at length.
>
> Gets back a formulaic
> robotic dumb answer
> and a twenty dollar voucher.
>
> Writes again, still they don’t
> get the point. Friends say:
> Dump Starbucks, try so-and-so.
>
> So we do when we can find them.
> They lurk, less visible, waiting
> for me to come and doze there.
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch.
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