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I always wanted to drink coffee but, I never could acquire the taste.

I love coffee shops because of the boys with glasses and long hair who read Hemmingway and Hawthorne there at night, not the coffee.

And I love the poems that can only be read when the lights are dimmed,

otherwise the courage to share oneself would somehow be lost within the limelight and only versions of what people liked to hear would be read.

I love the acoustic guitars that rarely appear on stage with musicians anymore.

(Everything's electronic now.)

And I love how I don't have to show my ID to sit at a bar and observe other people's lives-who they're with, who they want, what they're drinking.

So sometimes I walk to a coffee shop even though I could drive there in half the time.

I usually order something with espresso to make it that much more unbearable.

I take it from the plastic cup and pour it into my flowery mug.

Even if it's 90 degrees outside, I have to wear a sweatshirt-preferably with holes in the thumbs and a hood that's too big.

Most of the time, I listen to "Wonderwall" on my discman.

I'll take a sip of the bitter liquid and try to hide my disgust.



I read once that if you like coffee, then you like love.

I always wanted to love you, but I never could acquire the taste.