Best Americano Poems

"Americano"

filter-dripped
watered down
weak coffee

artificial

the mood 
steaming diluted
swings lower, unfilling;

the wanting
lusciously dark
hot to the tongue

more rapid 
complex in richness 
animated 

scalding and sharp

Expresso
piercing arrow 
shoots straight to the heart.



Candide Diderot. ‘25
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Coffee's been a favorite for me
most of my life wherever I've been
in the majority of that time
white with sugar sweet since eighteen

Now you've such a range of coffee
Vanilla, Cappuccino, Latte or black
it really gets to confusing state
for so many on the coffee rack

Now in recent...

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