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Misfit Cafe

In the little cafe
on dusty old South Broadway,
I join the other misfits for breakfast:
the old man with broken shoes
reading tomes on the history of the world,
the woman who rides up and down the street
on the trike (the one with the basket and umbrella),
the guys who don't have to be at the office, ever,
the women who don't belong to anybody.

Outside, the world roars by,
afraid of being late,
but I can relax in the peacefulness of this place,
and its feeling of timelessness.
This is the America I love,
where with dedication, and a little orginality,
you can still lose on your own terms.

  

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  • Home
  • Genevieve Freeman
  • Les Reed
  • Carolyn Reed
  • Darcy Reed
  • David Allen Reed
  • Blog
  • Ouji
  • that's just what you think
  • the girl who couldn
  • theodore
  • Flash Fiction
  • Facing Music
  • The Coat
  • Sorry Sweetheart
  • The Listener
  • Resistance
  • Poetry by Carolyn Reed
  • Emblematic
  • Poetalk
  • Ensenada
  • Maternity
  • Mother's Day
  • Union Station
  • Having Never Flown
  • William from the res
  • To the Forest
  • Cuneiform
  • The House of Tofu
  • The Bubble Angel