The Last Bitter Coffee

The last bitter coffee

in Naples, the last sip

of this life I live

vicariously, a traveller’s

life, denizen of cities

lived like dreams

,one at a time,

everything in the moment,

but soon forgotten.

And, like a miracle

of San Gennaro himself,

this is the best coffee

of them all, and a fitting

postscript to the sweetest

dream I have dreamt.

O, how good it tastes,

How strong and jittery it makes me

For the train ride to come,

for tomorrow

and tomorrow

and all the tomorrows

to come.

7/24/2020

Naples

 

"The Last Romantics." Seen in Forcella, Naples.