NO BRAINER

NO BRAINER

maybe nothing
maybe everything

no brainer
given what you stand to win

and if you lose,
well at least some schaden
consolation
everybody loses

not a single winner
no one
coming
out on top

Yes, Blaise,
I wonder what Jean Paul
would have
made of this, argument
observing the world
through those thick
existential lenses

sipping his, ninth coffee
smoking his tenth cigarette

wondering if this
fine, very modest but
highly intellectual Parisian
establishment

could be the blueprint, the
archangel archetype

for all the
great coffee houses in
the afterlife,

worth wagering something on
if when
the great debate is
entertained between existence
and essence

it would be bad faith not
to consider the being in
and for itself of coffee itself