Coffee Time At Memorial

COFFEE TIME AT MEMORIAL Memory-of on lips and gums. Colgate’s sweetness still coating the tongue, I am awash with morning coffee Just swallowing, that basic act, No easy task and that’s a fact I muster singular control But, oh, for a Horton jelly roll, Or donut with its finger-poking hole I laugh. It hurts. I loudly curse Hospital delivery? Impossibility The staff in mandatory denial Cream and sugar on the bedside stand, But now a bathroom call. Oh, damn! Thankful, nurse’s buzzer close at hand Dave Austin