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(cigarette smoke and coffee)

by Ashley N De Meo 

(oh and don't tell me i say it funny)

       stale scent lingers on your clothes
            (on your breath, and i, even so far
            away as this can smell it clearly)
you walk in with a bounce in your step
            (i guess cigarettes have that effect, since
            the coffee still appears too hot to drink)
you take your seat beside me
      proudly bearing textbook,notebook,pen,purse,smell
            (but no words of good morning,hello,how are you
            no smile, not even a nod. i guess my comfy pants
            can't compete with your fitted jeans and my low-cal
            fruit juice is nothing next to your four dollar cup of
            steaming aromalicious coffe - sweet and low and skim?)

and now with each sip, the aroma of freshly brewed beans reaches my nose as well
            (nicotine and caffeine
                   smoke and steam)
as the aroma seeps from the cardboard
             (carried perhaps by the heat that seeks to
             defeat the drafts of this cool october morning)
i wonder, will the heat from your drink spread far
enough to warm my hands as well?

       (and then my lips
               my throat
                            my heart)
or is even that little bit of sharing too much to ask?
              (i sure as hell don't want the leftover
              scent of your morning cigarette - 
              or should i make that plural?)

i hope it makes you happy
              (your cigarette smoke and coffee)

Copyright [C] 2006 Ashley Nicole