Anais Vionet Poet Rhyme

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windows

windows
A cafe table by the front for light
people outside stop and talk, I catch bites
of their plans, their issues and moods, despite
the glass, and the curfuffle of indoor café life.

I’m having an Americano glacé 
my preferred ‘pause-café’ focused break
a frosty iced-coffee sweet and sugary-brown
while this girl outside is having a full freakdown

I watch life’s tableau of complexity
through a café window, like a front row seat  
Oh, the chaos I’m shown from my unobserved repose
“Ooo! the chocolat croissants, I’ll have one of those”

Are whispers magnified by glass?
you wouldn’t believe the secrets that pass
when people think no one’s listening 
the gruesome details about lovers smashing
if it weren’t so titillating, it might be laughing

At some point I have to tune them out
with my laptop and AirPods, I shut out the crowd 
but occasionally I pause and look up to see 
my fellow students from the university
sharing their esoteric exploits unknowingly

I’m REALLY getting to know them - secretly
and these conversations are firing my libido
I’m very good at reading lips - lucky me.
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A song for this:
Messy by Lola Young
I'm Into Something Good by Herman's Hermits
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freakdown = combination freakout and breakdown.
smash = to have - come on - you know.

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