Macchiato

Contributor: Russ Cope

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Some people
live their lives
poised in the edge
of a caffeine bauble,

I prefer
the whiskey bottle broken
open,
floating up on the carbonation
of a Pilsner

I prefer
the clarity of vodka
sweetness of rum
or even a wine infusion

to the sucrose
kisses of candy coffees.


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