the coffee shop was full this saturday afternoon
warm coffee contemplative music a long tough week done
i sit and stare off out of the window i stare off out into the space of it
i see laptops glowing text books out and open tablets propped up with keyboard flaps out fingers
clicking and typing
faces glowing
ghostly white eyes oblivious
staring at screens
i love this coffee shop how it doesn’t even have to try
so many times i’ve seen kids playing games or running up to me and everyone else there
asking questions
dogs coming inside being greeted like regulars just like their owners
if a key is being pressed down here on a laptop is some weight being lifted up somewhere else?
what work is being done here, show me that which is being lifted up, what new energy being born
thousands of miles away
headphones on, back against the window, face glowing ghostly white
while children scamper around playing hide-n-seek
and a dog resting at the feet of it’s owner looks me in the eyes and lifts up it’s head and licks my hand
as i reach out to pat it’s head
heat flow 