The Only Star For Me

The Only Star For Me It’s my corner coffee shop, Starbucks The cheer starts here with hot coffee I’ll get yours, it’s nothing, awe shucks A home away from home, my family A blended Frappuccino, at lunch to boast Make it a Sumatra Arabica venti Fresh whole coffee beans dark roast Patrons on Laptops, their cup’s never empty Macha Latte hot tea, sweet and uplifting Named after Starbuck, the first mate in Moby Dick Originally intended on naming the coffeehouse Pequod after Ahab’s whaleship, the name would not stick At the brand’s core is the Starbucks siren, odd The bare-breasted, two-tailed mermaid but was intended to be as seductive as their coffees Based on an old sixteenth-century Norse woodcut The Seattle’s Pike Place logo evolved in the seventies They unveiled a cleaner image of the mermaid She was updated, cropped, and repositioned, so that only above the navel is displayed