How do you take your coffee papa ?
The computer is gone.
It died today.
I turned it on and
it made some horrible noises.
Then it shut itself off.
My first reaction
was suprise. I don’t
believe in God, not that way,
but I couldn’t help thinking that
God wanted me to do
something and was creating
some space in my life.
That was the next thought.
I hadn’t any coffee yet,
so I walked across my room,
naked and wearing sunglasses
against the morning sun, and I
set the coffee to making.
I pulled a chair to the fish tank,
which sits on top of the filing cabinet,
and I climbed on the chair
and sprinkled some breakfast into the fish tank.
I looked out the window.
The people in the office
across the street waved at me.
I climbed down off the chair
and poured myself a cupp’a coffee
and I poured in some chocolate syrup
and some honey.
I sat back down
at the computer
and tried it again.
Same horrible noises.
Then it shut itself off.
Hemmingway never had a
computer, I’m fairly certain of that.
I’m pretty sure he drank coffee in the morning.
At least once or twice.
