Morning Coffee

Photo by RP Thomas

Morning Coffee

The morning coffee drinkers at Talent’s

Noble Coffee are experts in many fields.

Or they claim to be. Political thinkers on occasion,

these coffee friends are reluctant to yield the floor

When a debate is in session.  A door salesman named

Harry Reems—he changed his name after the porn

Star—is also an astrologer, a horn player and a

former friend of the “disgraced chef,” Paula Deen.

A retired biologist, Clay Hicks, calls himself a philologist

and plays with words night and day. He has joined

Dianetics, has written two self-published polemics, which

nobody has read, and keeps one friend in Noble Coffee—

Himself.  Coffee, a known diuretic that settles wrong

in the intestines of the naively political, makes Noble 

Coffee a fine enclave every morning.  A haven for coffee 
fiends who, despite everything, sometimes get along.

TS