WATCH AND STARE.

Johnny likes the back corner seat in the cafe

it gives a good view of those entering and leaving

and a good view of the baristas as they work

at the bar especially the Clara Bow

lookalike with her black hair and cute cut

and dark eyes and thin almost

indecipherable smile and in the background the piped Baroque music

or sometimes jazz setting feet to tapping but this day

the barista is the short girl with the Italian twang

who gets the orders right on cue and who knows

your requirements before you say on a good day

the tattooed barista has gone his favourite gaze

to watch her work and talk and smile and the glitter

in her eyes she works elsewhere

for other men to watch and stare.