MUG AND BEING

MUG AND BEING

five types
of bread

seven kinds
of beans

a bean smorgasboard on
a tiny toast

tell me Juliet
you are the expert
on the names
of things

could this bland name
cover
    such a
stupendous thing?

or are we now forced
to jack up
our language
    as common parlance
turns
cordon bleau, basic
foodstuffs
forget
   their station in life
invert such an
ancestry to
plead
  their case for
being haut cuisine?

once upon
a time
   coffee was
just coffee

being
before essence
bean before
steam

and so much de Beauvoir
Sartre cafe existentialism
beat
    poetry: Corso, Ferlinghetti
hinged upon it

but now
     you need a handbook of
coffee phrase
and idiom, a coffee lexicon,
a coffee thesaurus

not just
spolit for choice but
thrown into
infinite quandary

whilst
business is buzzing
deals are
going down

brains going whole full
minutes without
delectable roast
flavour
   indispensible caffeine
(unless caffeine
free because
   trendy to be so  special
stylish or
in caffeine
cold turkey)

to drink to take to eat
to go
  
  dolce dolce rapido
latte expresso

sweetie
   dear

would you like a house cup
cup of
   house brand with

sublime piece oc toast
(actual piece of art)
and
   the being of your beans?

Need your answer now
before
     beford you very eyes

I percolate
      become      pure dream