Tonight's Poet Corner: Barney's Dead
Barney's Dead
the petroleum smell
so familiar
in Old Barney's Coffee Shop
by the Chevron station
Barney pours my coffee
then goes into the kitchen and
promptly has a stroke while
baking muffins
no one notices, of course
until a regular
(fifty-eight years old and
bustier than a
cheerleader) wonders why
Cristóbal is getting her tea
instead of the big
white guy
the petroleum smell
so familiar
in Old Barney's Coffee Shop
by the Chevron station
Barney pours my coffee
then goes into the kitchen and
promptly has a stroke while
baking muffins
no one notices, of course
until a regular
(fifty-eight years old and
bustier than a
cheerleader) wonders why
Cristóbal is getting her tea
instead of the big
white guy
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