ESPRESSO

ESPRESSO

was malingering in Hell’s
best coffee shop

started to fancy a coffee-
coloured barista
serving espresso
shrouded
            by steam

and yet
    still no mistaking
her demonic beauty
(so on point with
          these fine surrounds)

and me
      trying to catch her
      jade green eye and
lure
  it
    towards me

as if she might fall
        for a run of mill, ordinary devil

such as
        the one there
in the corner
                        writing this thing