Café Apostrophe

Café Apostrophe

Hip Cool Poets

pour in

from urban parks

punctuate the round

pedestal tables

& fold into cozy chairs

of Café Apostrophe

music experts

editors

novelists

turn-tablists

junkies

unemployed actors

congregate to listen to

Hip Cool Poets

                autodidactic

flamboyant thieves

                descriptivists

the ones who skewer

literary pretensions

w/ photocopied notes

the ones who read

honest verses scribbled

on scraps of old paper

about exposition

                & introspection

Hip Cool Poets

                write with a hunger

build linguistic lives & orate

the virtuosic absurdity of a

                poet’s paradox

people listen

assume the demeanor

soak it in

into their skin

into their senses

Hip Cool Poets

                predict

the future

w/ a map of their journey

cue applause

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Don't tell me what the poets are doing ...

In propinquity,
Nic